Stamp Collecting
GLASSINE ENVELOPES FOR STAMP COLLECTORS
Glassine Envelopes are ideal for storage of your duplicate stamps, postcards, banknotes, postal history, and YES even butterflys in glassine…
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Stamp Collecting
The Settlement of Jamestown Stamp Issue
The engraved Jamestown Exposition Stamps, today, are favorites of classic collectors.
Stamp Collecting
Crime Serge Hits the Post Office
The times are known as the Roaring ‘20s. Robbers found post offices to be as lucrative a target as banks…
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Collecting U.S. Air Mail Stamps: an article on Congressional Inaction
U.S. Airmail Service by the USPS is a story familiar to observers of our Congress; slow to get off the…
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Collecting Postage Due Stamps
Postage Due Stamps came about as a response to mail sent with insufficient postage. The extra postage due is indicated…
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Nature of America Stamp Series (USPS)
Nature of America, a highly successful stamp series of the United States Post Office, ran from 1999-2010 and includes 12…
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Makeshift Vending Machine Booklets
This is a story about the United States Postal Service being the good guys while doing a good job of…
Stamp Collecting
Chicago Century of Progress Exposition’s Stamp Collecting Legacy
No singular even in America during the 20th Century had more philatelic content than the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition.…
Postal History Stamp Collecting
The History of Fancy Cancels on U.S. Postage Stamps
The era of fancy cancels ranged from the first U.S. Stamps issued in 1847 through the 1890’s, when the Post…
Stamp Collecting
Stamp collecting is a hobby! But is it an investment?
Yes, it can be a profitable hobby. But the cost structure of the stamp business does not lend to the rapid…