The first US global forever stamp will be introduced on January 28, without any first-day ceremony. It shows a digital illustration of the world. It will be used to mail an 1-ounce international (or domestic) letter to any country of the world. The new international letter rate eliminated the...

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I have a pair of 1941 Petain stamps with a Lamartine Somme postmark. I can find no Lamartine in Somme department, but extensive Google checks have produced the info. that there is a Rue Lamartine in Amiens.The strikes of the postmark is uneven and Amiens would fit in the unstruck part - maybe. A...

I like to make copies of stamp images to use in a self made catalog and sometimes a album page. I copied the 2009 issues, great images, just the right size..however when I print them out the fluorescence bars overpowers my printer and makes the image useless. I don't suppose there is a solution for...

I have just received an Ebay lot of stamps of the Yugoslav Occupation of Istria which on close examination are all clearly fakes. Not only are most postmarked almost five years before they were issued, but the overprints themselves give grave cause for doubt. One had a denomination which does...

Anyone have any knowledge on the RNLI British Poster stamp Cinderellas. ?

Would anyone have information about this stamp? http://cjoint.com/?BBzeHfgVvAc It appears to be an issue of the "Republic of Kosova", (not Kosovo), which existed from 1990-2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Kosova Thank You Blair

Hello all, I'd appreciate any help identifying the country of these three stamps: stamp 1: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/pcm2009/stamps/temp/id1.jpg stamp2: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/pcm2009/stamps/temp/id2.jpg stamp3:

One uncut 120-stamps press sheet of US Major League Baseball All-Stars, with all four players, sold out on pre-orders before the issue date July 20 - 21. Only 1,000 of them were available. Source: Linn's Stamp News on-line. I suppose that they weren't bought by some uninformed collectors, who...

1) I've got a touch of catalogue-blindness - can anyone help ? In an old printed album for Turkey that I've just acquired it has spaces for 6 stamps dated 1909 (5pa, 10pa, 20pa, 1pi, 2pi & 2½pi) which appear to be for stamps of 1908 (Sultan Abdul-Hamid II) overprinted for the accession of...

According to my Gibbons catalogue, the 1865-76 issues of the Ottoman Empire were overprinted with four groups of Turkish characters at the top, bottom, & sides, around the oval band surrounding the star and crescent. Gibbons says that the right says "Posta", the top "Devlete", and the left...

Any comments on the accepted tolerance of perforation measurements? This issue should be P14 this issue is p14.25 x 14 Is a quarter acceptable tolerance? http://cjoint.com/data/lnkXgNaB7j.htm ID please http://cjoint.com/data/lnk0Ic7o5s.htm

This was offerred as an occupation cover. Apparently the zero in the date plug, was altered to half so as to indicate a bent "1", making the date 1941. The Channel islands were occupied from June 1940. Can anyone substatiate that claim? http://cjoint.com/data/lpk2mvfBPN.htm

Our latest mail from the Old Country. Query, The very limited knowledge I have about facer-cancellers would have this cover, read by an automatic OCR in Britain where the Barcode was added, the facer-canceler next in line than applies the slogan cancel. Why did the OCR rotate the cover 90...

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Christmas greetings with Santa's Ho Ho Ho cancellation. The sender placed the top stamps upside down, presuming they are tagged, would that have flipped the cover up the wrong way? Can tagging establish which way is up? http://cjoint.com/data/bhmExvc4HW.htm Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/data/bCpErA2ff8.htm Not my stamp, but I am curious, can green get to purple somehow, without intervention?

Hi, A nice NY PreCancel http://cjoint.com/?cntutC4ge1 and some various stamps on post cards from various places.

Just when I am breathing on my fingernails, and rubbing them on my chest in a mood of satisfaction that I know all my Chinese overprints, this pops up and nobbles me. (And it looks so darn familiar) Care to embarass me with its Identification :) http://cjoint.com/data/cscIMRnDBD.htm

One thing that I find amusing in eBay descriptions is the seller who posts a picture upside down to dramatise,I suppose, the fact that it has an inverted watermark. .. A couple of tiems I have sent the seller a letter suggesting that if the stamp were displayed right side up, the watermark fault...