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A tip of the tongs to Round-Up reader Richard Cannata of New York!
Richard sends along a listing on eBay about a 117-year-old mystery stamp that is being hailed as “The King Arthur” of stamps because “supposedly all of the experts have heard of the legend, but no one has ever [...]
Stamp Jewelry
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Wear a piece of history with postage stamp jewelry from around the world!
Anna Van Tuinen’s Dad collected stamps as a boy in the ’60s and she loved sorting through stamps with him when she was a kid. Now she’s making pendant necklaces using stamps from their collection.
Anna can also custom [...]
Yul Brynner - Stamp Collector
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Shown above a photo by Sid Avery of movie star Yul Brynner. Taken in 1953, it appears Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965 along with other celebrity photos.
In Avery’s 2002 obitiuary The New York Times wrote, “Mr. Avery’s work in the 1950’s and 60’s was a departure from the [...]
The Penny Post: Wi-Fi for the Victorian Era?
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Dr. Catherine Golden will discuss her new book, Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing on Sunday, January 10, 2010, the 170th anniversary of the Penny Post.
The Smithsonian Institution points out in a recent announcement about the upcoming talk, which it is sponsoring, “As you type out a text [...]
Phillipine Exhibit Offers University Insight Into History
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Philippine Daily Inquirer reports, “A group of hobbyists have formed the Dumaguete Stamp Collectors’ Club to tell the whole world about the joys of their favorite pastime. One way of spreading the word is by holding exhibits, so the club members displayed their collections last week at the Museo Vicente [...]
Pillar Box Maker
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UK’s The Press and Journal reports, “John Cooper, 69, has been making pillar and lamp boxes - those on lamp poles - for Royal Mail since he was 16.The grandfather of four has made thousands over the decades and his handiwork has ended up all over the globe.”
John (shown above) [...]
More Philatelic Present Ideas for the Holidays
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Listed on the CollectThatStamp.com website are two stamp management programs, Stamp Manage and Stamp Organizer Deluxe, that you might want to consider as a holiday present or suggestion.
According to the site, Stamp Manage offers a 30 day free download trial version, is compatible with Windows XP, Vista (32 & 64 [...]
The Wineburgh Philatelic Research Library
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The University of Texas Dallas’ McDermott Library website reports, “The Wineburgh Philatelic Research Library was founded to provide collectors access to a dynamic collection of books, journals, and catalogs. Collectors have been using this resource for more than two decades in pursuit of their philatelic interests.”
It goes on to say, [...]
Busiest Day of the Year
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Fox News in Washington, D.C. reports that yesterday was the busiest day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service.
Wisdom Martin files this report, “It’s 11 days before Christmas, and the crowds at the Post Office know they are running out of time…Post Office officials say they will get about [...]
Holiday Mail in Afghanistan
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Posted on the Military News Network website is footage of service members volunteering at a post office in Afghanistan to sort through more than 200,000 pounds of holiday mail destined for the troops.
Produced by Marine Staff Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, it drew some angry responses from former USPS and military personnel.
One [...]
Altered U.S. Stamps
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Some time ago, Sheryll Oswald wrote a nice piece on altered U.S. stamps warning collectors to be careful about what they buy on the Internet.
Sheryll writes, “If it sounds too good to be true….. it probably is!!” This is what I often hear from fellow bidders of classic U.S. stamps [...]
Lady McLeod Local
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Volker Kleiner from Germany writes to let Round-Up readers know about his new website, www.philateria.com.
Volker says, “I try to show the classic locals of the world and if somebody could help me out with scans it would be fine. Articles from different people are also included – looking always for [...]
Stamps for the Wounded
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As we commememorate Pearl Harbor Day, Joseph Robertia of Alaska’s Peninsula Clarion reports since 1942, the Stamps for the Wounded program has collected stamps and other stamp collecting related materials, and redistributed them to veteran’s hospitals across the U.S. as occupational and recuperative therapy for wounded soldiers.
According to Joseph, “Thirty-five [...]
Post Marks Spread Holiday Cheer
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Glenn Estus, president of the Vermont Philatelic Society was interviewed on WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont about holiday postmarks.
Shown in the piece are holiday covers being cancelled at the North Pole, New York and Bethlehem, New Hampshire post offices.
Glenn (shown above) writes on the Virtual Stamp Club website,”… the postal clerk [...]
Buying and Selling Stamps on eBay
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The Trade Forum website reports, “…people using eBay for their stamp collection need to follow the code of conduct that is based on Philatelic Code of Ethics, the Standing Resolutions of the American Philatelic Society, and specific conditions of sale that are used in typical trade and transaction practice by [...]
Philatelically Correct Wine
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Need an idea for an affordable wine to go with holiday dinners? Then stock up on some philatelically correct Contrada!
Produced by the Michael Pozzan Winery, which is located in the Russian River Valley in Northern California, Contrada has a 400L Italian stamp (SC# 1424) on its label.
I recently purchased a [...]
The 800-Pound Stamp Prank
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Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Harvey recalls that a giant 1-cent concrete stamp, featuring Thomas Jefferson, was placed in the parking lot of the postal service’s Terminal Annex in downtown L.A. as a prank back in 1979.
In the LA Then and Now column which appeared over the weekend, Steve pens, [...]
Printing Postage Stamps
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Adenauer, Konrad
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The question of the German Rhineland kept the peacemakers busy. Ideally, it was to be a buffer zone between France and Germany, and various ideas were floated. Demilitarize the area, or make it part of France even. The inhabitants had never got used to Prussian rule, but becoming French was probably a [...]
Roundup Selected as Stamp Spotlight Blog on Trakkrz.com
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The Stamp Collecting Roundup has been selected as the Stamp Spotlight Blog of the month by Trakkrz.com.
What is Trakkrz.com?
According to the site’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), “Trakkrz.com is the place to ‘trakk’ the best individual bloggers on the web by topic. We don’t follow news feeds, and generic search results [...]
Holiday Mail for Heroes
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While today is a Federal holiday, it is business as usual for our service personnel.
Frank McDade writes the Roundup to ask readers to send holiday cards with messages of thanks and cheer to service members, veterans and their families. Frank is part of the 2009 “Holiday Mail for Heroes” [...]
World’s First Multimedia Stamp
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Crienglish.com reports, “A new series of stamps entitled ‘The Tang Dynasty’s Three Hundred Poems’ is stirring up a wave of excitement in a market that has remained pretty quiet for almost two decades.”
According to an article by report Chu Daye,”Some say that this new stamp collection is nothing short of [...]
Book on Simon Taxis Receives Major Italian Philatelic Journalist Award
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Italy’s Philatelic Journalists Guild has awarded the book Simon Taxis and the Posts of the State of Milan During the Renaissance by Giorgio Migliavacca and Tarcisio Bottani the prestigious “Fulvio Apollonio Prize” for the best postal history book published in 2008 according to a report on the BVI News website.
Last [...]
Saddam Stamps Skyrocket in Iraq
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Stamp prices showing Saddam Hussein are rising sharply in Iraq according to a report by Sammy Ketz of American Free Press (AFP).
Kamal Kamel, who runs a stall selling stamps in the Bab al-Muazzam district where the Iraqi Philatelic and Numismatic Society meets is quoted in the piece as saying, “Before [...]
Why Benny Hill Was Bumped from British Stamps
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UK’s Daily Mail reports documents reveal comic Benny Hill was dumped from a set of Royal Mail stamps because of concerns about his “saucy” style.
According to the paper, “Slapstick, burlesque and double entendre were always his hallmark. Some critics accused the show of sexism but Hill maintained that the female [...]
