There is one entire country under the United States collecting umbrella that has issued hundreds of stamps, which is popular on two continents, and which is completable by even collectors of modest means. The country is the Ryukyu Islands which were captured during WWII by the United States at an enormous loss of life and […]
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Presidential topical collections in general are not very popular largely because there is so little philatelic material that has been issued for most Presidents (Quick! name three stamps that have Garfield or the current Presidential flavor
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By 1975, Henry Harris was an old man and was ready to
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Bill Evans was already an avid collector when he started coming to our auctions some thirty years ago. He was of Hungarian descent and gravitated towards Hungarian philately. He became particularly interested in a specialized area of Hungarian philately called Hungarian Occupations
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Dave and Jenny were older when I first met them in the early 1970s. My first job at the company was working in the shop (we had one then), and Dave and Jenny were regulars. They had married late, and because of the economic distress of the Depression had put off children until that wasn’t
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There is nothing more exciting for a collector than to complete a collection of stamps, and Kionga makes it about as easy as it gets. There were only four stamps issued in the entire history of the country, and they sell for about $50. Kionga is a tiny scrap of real estate on the east
Many collectors spend a great deal of money on their hobby and don’t have a great deal to show for it. Your money is yours to do with as you please (after all, this is America), but most people take some satisfaction in getting their money’s worth when they buy something and, if not always getting
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The value of most United States stamps have been falling over the last twenty years, and the CPI has been rising. Critics have claimed that the CPI overemphasizes increases in food, fuel, and housing (until the last few years, at least). We have not understood that price increases have been commodity driven and that many existing goods and non-commodity goods
The story of philately over the last twenty years is the story of the Internet and of eBay. It’s hard to quantify eBay’s philatelic success (as they keep their numbers for each of their divisions to themselves), but it’s clear they offer millions of lots per year to hundreds of thousands of buyers on behalf of tens of thousands of sellers.
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