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Philatelists today are apt to look askance at the new issue policies of many countries. Between 2005 and 2010 the United States issued over 500 different stamps. Did we really need that many? OK, maybe we did; after all we are a diverse nation of 320 million people (with plenty of special interests that need […]

Bill Pearson started selling stamps in 1920 and he began collecting in the last years of the nineteenth century. He had been introduced to the hobby by his grandfather who had the perspicuity to buy a mint copy of the 5c 1847 at the post office and save it. So Bill claimed he was descended

Kindles are now priced at $139 and this year it is expected that more books will be sold online than will be sold as paper. Yesterday, the publisher of the New York Times said that he expected that eventually the Times would not be published on paper. Over three quarters of our business comes to

It’s beginning to look as if the economic predictions of a lost decade might be accurate. Based on what happened to the Japanese economy in the 1990s, this model suggests that the Recession that started in 2007 was so severe that it will take up to ten years to recover from it fully. Consumer demand

Most collectors collect in albums where they place their best stamps. Until they have time to place their stamps in albums, they leave them in the envelopes that they bought them in. They put them in glassines and on stock cards. They leave them on old album pages. They are disorganized, with modern mint new

Apfelbaum is having its annual end of summer sale http://stampauctionnetwork.com/ba/R170.cfm. We are offering everything at discounts of at least 40%. We think you’ll be pleased with the selection and we know you will be pleased with the price. And as always Apfelbaum’s complete money back guarantee of satisfaction assures you that you will be happy

Great collections are more than just an assemblage of stamps. They are created with a purpose, an underlying goal, and in the best of collections this purpose is to explore all the varieties and rarities that can be obtained. By this standard one of the finest collections ever assembled is the United States collection created

Among the many different types of stamps and covers to collect, one of the more interesting is state postal history and covers. Each state has its own rich history and most states have collector societies devoted to advancing collecting of local postal history. Recently, I came across a pretty good collection of Colorado postal history.

Double dip used to be two scoops of ice cream on a warm summer night. Now it means a recession that never ends. Economists are predicting a “lost decade” like the one that Japan has been enduring for nearly two decades now, with low economic growth and high unemployment.It’s hard to know what is really