The current owners of Apfelbaum are the great grandchildren of Maurice Apfelbaum who first became a stamp dealer in 1910-nearly 100 years ago. We are four- John, Ken, Missy, and Susanne. John (that’s me) is 56. I started collecting stamps when I was eight. The first set of stamps I ever bought was the Jules […]
Our company has always been an auction house, holding over 1070 auctions since 1930. About five years ago a number of our customers asked us if we could consider by a direct sales method. These buyers didn’t like auctions, the uncertainty as to price or the stress of not knowing whether they would win the
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The economy seems to have avoided meltdown. The boost was the the bank support package that Bush started and Obama is completing. It has prevented any further financial collapses. Credit and lending are no longer contracting. And the stimulus package has just began to come online. With the trillions of dollars being pumped into the
From a stamp collecting standpoint, modern warfare is boring. Beginning with the American Civil War, war has always brought us interesting postal issues, covers, rates, locals semiofficials. Today’s war is not only fought high tech but communications are far less often by the postal route. WW II was a philatelist’s delight. Tens of thousands of
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Its amazing how rapid the response to blogs can be. I wrote several days ago about how inexpensively postage is selling for right now and a client wrote to offer me a quantity of modern US postage. This is all full gum (or self adhesive) valid US postage and we can sell it to you
With over 3700 new lots I urge you to take a look at our Public Auction that takes place this week. Especially appealing is a wonderful investor holding of better European sets and singles that are being opened at a fraction of owners cost. My guess is that when the inflationary implications of the world
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Yesterday, we had nearly 30 inches of snow in my neighborhood of suburban Philadelphia. By three hours into the storm, the Internet, television and phone cable to our house had snapped and we were told that it can’t be repaired for four days. I began to think that this must have been how our grandfather’s