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For over thirty years, from 1965 to 1987, my Grandfather, Earl Apfelbaum published a weekly column in Linns Stamp News, called Apfelbaum’s Corner. In the very first article he said that his model for the articles were a series of car columns that had run in the Philadelphia Bulletin in the 1930’s and 1940’s called […]

Here’s something we didn’t know       http://www.examiner.com/american-history-in-national/black-friday-is-upon-us-but-where-did-it-start

The Internet has become a huge sales tool and it is just a matter of time before online sales overtake walk in retail sales in gross volume. Some products, such as books and especially music, are already sold mainly on line and each year brings a higher proportion of sales in these fields away from

In the 1980’s mint new issues from British Colonies and Western Europe were marketed extensively as good investments. The theory was that as the number of collectors rose the newer issues would rise in value similarly to the way that the issues of the 1950’s had risen by 1980. What the people who bought and

Wikipedia is one of the wonders of the Internet. Containing over 20 million encyclopedia style articles, Wikipedia has over 100,000 active contributors and is visited by tens of millions of readers each month. If you visit the “stamp collecting” and “philately” entries on Wikipedia  you will see how cursory and elementary the articles are. For the most part

One of the hardest jobs in the world probably has to be generating news articles for Linns stamp magazine or any of the other weekly philatelic news journals. Is there really enough news to fill 64 pages with stamp news every week? Probably not. But Linns could do a better job of trying. The November

As you sit around this Thanksgiving with family and friends waiting for the turkey dinner no doubt you have been wondering which American holidays are collected thematically and which aren’t. There are five main work holidays in the United States-Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Presidents Day has probably the most number

The world of philately is replete with euphemisms and misnomers. Some of them are deceptive. Most of them are silly. The American Philatelic Experization Service (the expert group of the APS) for many years marketed themselves under their acronym APES, never cognizant that in the competitive world of expertizing services one shouldn’t voluntarily place oneself lower on the evolutionary