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Here’s a link to an article published in the December 2013 edition of the British magazine Stamp & Coin Mart.
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Stamps Today Cost Less in Real Money Than They Used To
Prices and the value of money are difficult to evaluate over time. Readers of Victorian novels know that in the late Nineteenth Century an income of about 150 Pounds a year was the minimum needed to live as a gentleman (Trollope says tartly “an embarrassed gentleman, yes, but a gentleman”). That was three Pounds a
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Harry Potter Stamps
Our new stamps have some people up in arms and has given us some publicity in the non philatelic media.
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Stamp Auctions
Forty years ago, when I started in the stamp business, there were twenty stamp auction houses in the United States holding several hundred auctions per year. Today there are only ten holding not many more than fifty auctions. Even before the Internet and the sales platform of Ebay (where everyone can participate in auctions all
Grills
The following is a link to an article published in the January 2014 edition of the British magazine Stamp & Coin Mart.
A Very Interesting Area To Collect
It’s a bit of a toss up over which ex-empire, the British or the Austro-Hungarian, has produced the most number of stamps. Certainly up to WWII the British Empire and its derivatives would be the winner. But in the years since WWII, the countries that made up the former Austro-Hungarian Empire have laid a strong
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1000 Blog Posts
This week this stamp blog reached its 1000th post yesterday. Most of these articles are about philatelic history and the vastness of our hobby. And because they are not timely (after all little changes in philately, which is probably the reason so many people enjoy stamps) most of the earlier articles are just as useful
Be Honest With Your Family About Your Stamps
Most collectors are honest with their families about their philatelic holdings. They inform them of how much they really spent and how much they really feel their stamps are worth. When misunderstandings arise
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