Glamor and money often go hand and hand in philately. Certainly the recent $2 million plus that a Hawaii cover sold for is impressive. Who doesn’t wish that they could own a piece like that? Yet countries that have great rarities as part of their main collecting body often face a drop off in terms […]
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Little realized by philatelists now is the fact that postal stationery was intended, by the originators of postage stamps and the early postal agencies, to rival stamps in use. Post Offfices around the world liked postal stationery because the sizes of the envelopes issued were uniform and thus facilitated handling. Most countries so wanted to encourage use
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The question of the popularity of philately has been one that every generation of collectors has asked. In the 1970s, the USPS and Linn
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There have long been discussions among serious stamp collectors over how to best grow our hobby, and the discussion has usually tended to be dominated by those who favor outreach. They believe that a love of the hobby is learned, and by exposing school students and relatives to the pleasures of stamp collecting we plant
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Apfelbaum’s corner has just reached its thousandth posting. All in all, there are nearly 500,000 words on all topics philatelic. The average novel is about 65,000 words; so this would make this series of articles some eight volumes in length. All the articles are different, and most are about philatelic issues and history that have
It is hard to overstate the importance of the Civil War
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Among the most popular stamps in philately, French Colony issues fall into three main types
Earl Apfelbaum opened his first stamp store on the Tuesday after Labor Day in 1930. Earl had been a part time dealer, and when his first business, in the clothing trade, failed at the beginning of the Great Depression, he and his father Maurice pooled their resources, their philatelic inventory, and their knowledge and opened
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Stamp Circuits were once one of the most popular methods of sale. They began in the late nineteenth century largely as part of club meetings. You see old circuit pages and even circuit books on French and English printed pages going back as early as about 1880. Collectors would hinge duplicates to these pages and