Could someone who reads Arabic please check out the cover at: http://www.ohmygosh.on.ca/stamps/yemen/yemcens.htm It has what I believe is a crude YAR censor tape. As far as I can see top line of the tape reads "YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC" in Arabic Could anyone here translate the bottom line please?

hello, for a german book publication i´m looking for contacts to nautic mail (ship mail) collectors, who can provide me with scans from their collections. also if you´re dealer and have stuff i´m looking for please let me know, i might be willing to buy as well. i´m looking for any postal stuff...

Hello, A friend of mine is looking for preprinted album pages for CHINA PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC ( from 1949 to now on). I have mentionned to him LEUCHTTURM (LIGHTHOUSE) http://www.leuchtturm.com http://www.leuchtturm.com/en/prod/en_stamps_frame.htm Do you know other suppliers ?

I found this strip of four stamp-like objects :-) in a bag of kiloware containing chiefly Irish and UK stamps from the 1970s and 1980s: http://141.20.245.46/~jmh/Stamps/greenshield.jpg I suppose that this is from the British Isles, too, but what is it? What were these stamps meant for? There is a...

I am currently researching the background for the mass production of forgeries of cheap Estonian stamps in the 1920's and -30's. One of the major reasons was the interest from European and US dealers to buy cheap stamps to sell to collectors. When the postal authorities were unable to satisfy the...

The Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the US Constitution says that it is a coin containing 371.25 grains of fine silver. Because the Constitutution never has been amended on this since 1788, this meaning is apparently legally valid. By using this definition you can compute how many grains of...

In fact, there might not even be a U.S. Legends of Hollywood stamp in 2004. Get the latest in The Virtual Stamp Club message board, http://forums.delphiforums.com/stamps/messages/?msg=15340.1

The last (railway) Travelling Post Offices in the UK make their last runs tonight. http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2388542 -- Jon Bell Presbyterian College Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA

Between the 3rd and the 5th January 2004 took place in the capital of the Spanish North Africa, Ciudad de Leon, the first congress dedicated to the study of the literary inheritance of the great Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Commemorating this special event, the SNAPO has issued on the 8th of...

Which country issued the world's first official book of stamps and when? It was not the UK. Douglas

Hello, My mother just handed me an old stamp collection that was my fathers. My parents went through a messy divorce in 1964. My father took off and left behind some musical instruments, some tools and a stamp collection. Mom was after him for many years for non-payment of child support and...

My apologies to the author of the postcard. I referred to him as being perhaps illiterate, referring to his spelling of "Buenos Ayres". On browsing an old 1930 Stamp Album today, I noticed that it is, indeed how it was once spelled, well, in this part of the world. (Remove...

Ladies and Gentlemen This is one for our Aussie colleagues. I have a 1966 4c orange ( very common ) QE2 definitive off paper which shows part of a CDS which appears to read "Ship Mail". Is this a "paquebot" type stamp(forlorn hope) or an indication that the package is intended to be sent...

R.I.P. Mail trains MAIL TRAINS have reached the end of the line. No more the night mail, crossing the border, bringing no cheque nor postal order. After more than 160 years of service, the Travelling Post Office - where post is sorted en route on special train services - has finally gone to the...

For those who are interested I have just uploaded a small webpage about the American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. All the US issues are included + some more. http://arthistory1.school.dk/frame_MaryCassatt.htm The page is part of my new art historical context on stamps. --

A collector friend in Germany has sent me a very extraordinary Christmas present: a book about Pontius Pilate, of whom the legend persistently says that he was born in the small Franconian town Forchheim, in the proximity of Nuremberg in Germany. The historical role of Pilate is well known. One...

Are PNC strips (hope I got the right term here) typically kept in strips of 3 or 5? The middle stamp is the one with the number, right? Since I just snagged a couple strips at the Philatelic Center yesterday I might as well do it right from the get-go. Thanx...

http://www.post.ch/SiteOnLine/EN/Accueil/1,1727,14026-955,00.html Interesting... Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps:...

The latest update to The Virtual Stamp Club Web site www.VirtualStampClub.com includes your last chance to vote in the 2004 U.S. Stamp Polls (including Best Junket, Most Commercial and Most Overdue), a disagreement between South Korea and Japan over stamps, a last-minute surprise from the U.S.,...

Bob: Here's another one for you. BENIN (1988) Chicken*. Shaman*. Deluxe sheet. Ritual offering to God of Thunder and Lightning. Scott No 655, Yvert No 668a http://tinyurl.com/yudaz