What Can Be Done: Bremen is a city in the north of Germany near the North Sea. It was a part of the Hanseatic League and was its own city state before the confederation of Germany. The stamps of Bremen are very difficult to collect and to specialize in. There are a total of 16 […]
What Can Be Done: Â If you want to collect a country that was among the first issuers of stamps, that is easy to complete, and which can be completed for less than $50, then Bergedorf is for you. Bergedorf is a city in northern Germany that for a short period between 1861-1867 issued its own
What Can Be Done: Argentina is a case study in how important it is that a country’s political system works. In 1930, Argentina was the seventh wealthiest nation in the world. Eighty five years later, after a succession of bad governments, it has sunk to third world status. The stamps of Argentina provide a collector
What Can Be Done: Baden is a very appealing country to collect as it can be collected as simply or as complexly as a collector might want. There are less than thirty stamps needed for completion, so the appeal of completing a major classic philatelic country drives many collectors to the stamps of Baden. And,
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
Stamp shows come in different shapes and sizes. The smallest are local bourses, where dealers collect to offer their wares. Most areas used to have such bourses monthly and, though the Internet has replaced most direct person to person stamps selling, hundreds of local bourses are held each year in this country. Â A little
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Communication has gone from being first bound by the voice, that is oral communication, to being completely electronic. Before four or five thousand years ago, communication was all oral, with histories and stories passed down from generation to generation. Writing changed human development and made communication possible with people you could never meet, across wide
One of the most exciting aspects of philately (and one of its most popular until about 1940) is plating. Plating is a subspecialty that is usually only available on classic engraved stamps. When stamps are printed from the engraved (or intaglio) process a single die is created by the master engraver. How that die is
Though only the leader for a few years Ki Jong Un has continued his nation’s slide into abject poverty and oppression. There are few laboratory tests in any environment that so clearly measure the differences in political systems as has North and South Korea. Divided after complete devastation during WW II, the North took a
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