For many years we have been searching for a world wide expert who can expertize the entire non US world. For the US area there is the Philatelic Foundation, but they really don’t do much with Foreign stamps. We wanted an expert who expertized in a large number of countries and areas, who didn’t indelibly […]
Essays are designs for stamps that don’t get issued. If they are issued, these designs are then called Proofs. Essays come in two main types – design essays and production essays. Design essays are artist’s productions for proposed stamps. These designs may come as a result of an authorized postal authority stamp production process, where
1910 Maurice Apfelbaum, Earl’s father, listed his occupation in the 1910 US census as “stamp dealer”. By 1910 stamp collecting was already a well respected worldwide hobby boasting scores of catalogs and hundreds of world wide journals. Stamp collectors in 1910 almost always collected revenue stamps and Cut Squares of the countries they collected and
About twenty years ago I had an appointment to see a widow. Her husband had died a few months before and had told her that his stamp collection was worth very little but that she should call me and have me look at it during my next trip to her area. When I offered her
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Presidential topical collections in general are not very popular largely because there is so little philatelic material that has been issued for most Presidents (quick – name three stamps that have Garfield or Coolidge on them). And if it wasn’t for the 1931 Presidential set there would be no US stamps with Taft or Harrison
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There are four main categories of prepaid labels that have been issued to indicate prepayment for a service or tax. They are postage stamps, revenue stamps, telegraph stamps and telephone stamps. Worldwide issues of these stamps vary, but overall the number of postage stamps greatly exceeds the number of revenues, telephone and telegraph stamps.
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What Can Be Done: If you wanted to collect one country that only issued stamps in the nineteenth century and which gives all the joy the philately has to offer, than Queensland would be a very good choice. There are imperfs, and numerous different perforation types on the first issues, all of which make for
What Can Be Done: South Australia presents the similar challenges to the other Australian States. South Australia produced most of their stamps locally, for non-philatelic purposes. Printing methods in Australia were not as refined as the finest European printers and changing postal needs and printing orders made for many printings and many varieties. South Australia
The United States is in a Presidential election year. For political junkies, the day to day battle of who said what matters greatly. And in November, we will elect a new President and Congress. Though elections matter for the short term goals of liberals and conservatives, the question for us here is do politics matter
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