There are very few philatelic investments that are a sure thing and that have very small dealer markups going in and out. But buying “forever” discount postage is a winner. Right now you can buy discount “forever” first class postage rate stamps at about 86% of postage value. With the Post Office planning to raise the […]
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Tiny islands have often assumed importance because of their geographic proximity to someplace of great economic value. Hong Kong became as important as it did because it was a British possession and practically Chinese at the same time. St Thomas in the American Virgin islands was purchased from the Danes to protect American shipping lanes
If there is ever a date that goes into history books to mark the demise of printed books in the battle with electronic information on the Internet, it may well be March 14, 2012-the day that The Encyclopedia Britannica announced that it was ceasing publication of its 20 volume annual edition. For nearly 300 years
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We have all been reading about the Post Office’s troubles and potential solutions. The problems are largely of Congress’s making. As Josh Eidelson says in a Salon article:
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De Tocqueville finished his famous book “Democracy in America” in 1840 the year that the first postage stamp was issued. Capitalism was in its adolescence and the jury was still out on whether as a system capitalism would produce wide ranging socioeconomic benefits or would just serve to enrich the few. De Tocqueville has a
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There are several British Commonwealth countries that have always issued stamps with no regard for the Crown Agents traditions and issuing policy. Countries such as Australia and the Transvaal are examples of this. These are countries that have always placed their own history and ethnology first when designing their stamps and philatelists have rewarded this independence with
There are two main types of thematic collecting. The first involves using philatelic items to annotate a historical or cultural point. A collection entitled “The Slave Trade” or “Style and Syntax in Music” would be examples of this type. The second type is more prosaic-using stamps as pictures to illustrate a theme. The above set
