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News this week came that the Post Office lost $7 billion dollars last year and this is after an accounting change postpones a $5 billion loss due to how pension contributions are paid. Worse, the Post Office’s business model is failing and, despite what really seems to be significant efforts at increasing efficiency, loses will only compound

Tom Wilson had been a customer of ours for years when he called us to come and see his collection that he was ready to sell.Tom and I spoke on the phone and set up an appointment for me to come to his home in Chula Vista, quite a ways from my Jenkintown office, but, for

When I started in the stamp business in the late 1960s there was still active a large group of professional philatelists who had been political refugees from the 1930s. These were people who had escaped Germany and Eastern Europe and had come to the United States, often by very circuitous routes. All had a story and most

Occupation stamps are war time issues that are printed by an occupying force for use in the territory of a conquered area. As such, they are usually quite popular in the country that did the occupying, as sort of a jingoistic memory, and quite unpopular in the country that was occupied, reminding them of their weakness

There have been thousands of competitive stamp exhibits that have been prepared and displayed over the last century. These collections take years to develop and many hours to mount, describe and write up. They are then put up in frames at a stamp show, seen by a few score people and, on average, exhibited a

OrcoExpo (in Southern California)  has long been one of the more popular and well attended stamp shows in the United States despite being only a dealer’s bourse and having no exhibits. Many attendees who go to stamp shows go only for the dealer bourse, having little interest in competitive exhibits. And nearly all of the

Offices Abroad stamps are stamps that are issued for use in a foreign post office under a treaty with a foreign government.