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We bought several sets of US #C13-15. They are Very Fine, og NH. The price is $1100 postpaid. Offer expires this Friday June 26. Email me your address and payment details. Supplies are very limited and your satisfaction is guaranteed.

There are four major expertization services operating in the United States today, The American Philatelic Expertization Service (whose acronym APES was mercifully dropped a few years ago), the Philatelic Foundation, Professional Stamp Expertizers, and Sergio Sismondo. The American Philatelic Expertization Service is run by the American Philatelic Society. It is a not-for-profit service and actually

H R Harmer, the company that sold the Caspary collection, the Hind collection and the Roosevelt collection was acquired by Greg Manning auctions several years ago. When the Manning Afinsa deal began to disastrously unravel, the remaining company wisely dropped the Manning name and kept the prestigious Harmer moniker for their auctions. The company has

The New York Times is reporting today on the US Budget deficit and how it should range in the trillion dollar a year level for years to come. The Times article parses blame for this (and there is plenty to go around) but the conclusion is that the political will to address the structural deficit

The announcement by H R Harmer and Nutmeg (formerly Greg Manning Auctions) ends the east coast presence of an auction company that was holding New York area auctions since 1940. Nutmeg, which was the largest seller in the country in the old mail sale model of stamp sales, announced that they are suspending sales of

Apfelbaum has always been one of the leaders in stamp auctions. We’ve offered hundreds of thousands of lots and sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stamps at Public Auction, first by catalog only and now monthly live online. You can see information on our website on how to participate.But we have never forgotten

Philately is not an academic discipline. Thus, there is no set corpus of scholarly works that a philatelist should master in order to be well read in our field. This is fine in the sense that our hobby is just a hobby and as such really doesn’t need rules. But it also means that competent

There is almost no aspect of political life that doesn’t have implications for our hobby. The issue of health care reform has more pertinacity to stamp collecting than most political issues because it bears so directly on the long term financial well being of our country and of all of us. And ultimately any business

The current owners of Apfelbaum are the great grandchildren of Maurice Apfelbaum who first became a stamp dealer in 1910-nearly 100 years ago. We are four- John, Ken, Missy, and Susanne. John (that’s me) is 56. I started collecting stamps when I was eight. The first set of stamps I ever bought was the Jules