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Historiography is the study of the writing of history

It is doubtful any philatelist would change his vote based on what either of the two candidates in the November election could do for stamp collecting. And it is doubtful that the policies touted by either candidate would have much short term impact. But the candidates do have starkly different visions on tax policy and

Differing sub specialties of philately are collected more avidly depending on the country. Americans have plate blocks and First Day Covers but booklet and booklet pane philately has never been very popular among US area collectors. The United States issued its first booklet stamps in the 1890s but the real engines behind booklet pane collecting

First day Cover collecting has existed as an organized branch of philately for a little over a hundred years. The first philatelically prepared First Day Cover that I have seen was a 1909 Lincoln memorial commemorative that was sent on a Lincoln postcard by the great early collector Phillip Ward. Ward was an avid collector

Life us a series of developmental stages and how we progress through them has a great deal to do with how happy we are with our lives. Philately too has developmental stages and how collectors progress through them is important in increasing the joy that we derive from our hobby. The earliest stage in stamp

Seigniorage is the profit that governments make on securities that they issue, on which they don’t pay interest, and that are retained unused by the public. Cash in mattresses represents a form of seigniorage and, more than anything else, old face value postage stamps held by collectors do as well. The money that collectors have

The problem of what quantities exist of different classic stamps has been one of the great difficulties of philatelic research. Before the days of the Internet nearly all classic stamps that were sold were not illustrated so it was impossible for any census taker to know if he had counted a given specimen before. Counts