There are several British Commonwealth countries that have always issued stamps with no regard for the Crown Agents traditions and issuing policy. Countries such as Australia and the Transvaal are examples of this. These are countries that have always placed their own history and ethnology first when designing their stamps and philatelists have rewarded this independence with […]
There are two main types of thematic collecting. The first involves using philatelic items to annotate a historical or cultural point. A collection entitled “The Slave Trade” or “Style and Syntax in Music” would be examples of this type. The second type is more prosaic-using stamps as pictures to illustrate a theme. The above set
It seems likely that sometime in the next few years that the Federal government is going to step into the state sales tax morass and impose some kind of national sales tax on interstate sales. As it is now, the vast majority of philatelic items are sold sales tax free as they are purchased by
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Many collectors have always found the classified ads in Linns and in the American Philatelist to be among the most interesting parts of those magazines. The classifieds gave you access to everything from stamps on paper mixture, to buy lists for US commemoratives by hundreds, to the buying and selling prices of foreign postage. Linns
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H E Harris was in a conundrum after it’s sale to General Mills. Wesley Mann the new President of Harris soon realized that the tremendous profit margins that had made Harris such an attractive take over candidate could never be maintained. There are two ways to maintain or increase short term profits in a business
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Wesley Mann was the President of H E Harris in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. His background was in finance and he was made the head of what was then the world’s largest stamp company because of his successful corporate career at General Mills, the cereal conglomerate. General Mills had just bought Harris and
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The number and variety of Revenue Stamps continue to amaze. Here is check from Iceland with revenues from 1942. We’ll be selling this as part of a lot in our March Public Auction. This lot of Iceland revenues may have the greatest rarity for the lowest price of anything we’ve ever sold. We’ve never sold any of
There are many types of special service stamps-stamps that indicate a different kind of postal service than traditional, straight forward first class postage. Differing countries have differing attitudes towards special services and their stamps. Most countries issue stamps to distinguish Official postage or Newspapers or Postage Dues, but not all countries issue stamps for say, Marine Insurance, as
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