A question coming from a french speaking newsgroup on collections news:fr.rec.collections Somebody found this object : http://cjoint.com/?cjkSukEkQg Diameter 17 to 20 mm Thickness .8 to 1 mm The weight leads to think it is metallic (brass or bronze due to the colour)

I need a scanning or photo copy of one item only. TIA. -- Mvh Toke Har du spurgt dit bibliotek om de har min bog om postfolk 1624-1927 (1983)?: http://www.norbyhus.dk/DDPE/

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum’s award-winning Web site Arago presents another featured collection titled “American Art on Postage Stamps: Telling the Story of a Nation,” which can be viewed at: http://npm.si.edu/AragoAmericanArt From the first stamps issued by the United States in 1847...

hello I have not the catalog of this country http://www.cijoint.fr/cjlink.php?file=cj200902/cijzoIJDnx.jpg I would like to know number, cotation and printed value on the stamps. Some stamps have different perf

WW1. GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR MAIL JAPAN TO HONG KONG 1915 - 1916 - http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0479/index0479c.htm This is a unique collection of correspondence sent from German prisoners in Japanese POW camps to fellow German prisoners, who were severely wounded marines, held in Hong Kong by the...

I have stumbled across a US postage Due (Sc D82) bearing a precancel from Columbus Ohio. Why, pray tell, would the post office precancel these (when logic tells you they really don't even need to be cancelled, as they serve no purpose for re-use as postage) and how common would this practice...

Hi Everyone: We just launced a "Hundred Worldwide Stamps for Free" (maximum three winners per week) offer at: http://www.onefamilysblog.com/2009/02/stamp-collecting-introducing-philately.html .. The article focuses on introducing kids to philately. Weekly offers will be posted at...

I have two stamps with United We Stand topic on the face. One from Mustique and the other Palm Island Island. Scott lists Mustique but not Palm Island. I would like to include date of issue for the Palm Island stamp. Anyone have a catalog listing Palm Island? Thanks, Ralphael, the OLD one

Hello http://www.cijoint.fr/cjlink.php?file=cj200902/cijQsy5mkp.jpg This stamp should be the 35 of SG. It is described as 1 shilling yellow green and imperf. I think it is just green and there is a perf, it seems a very bad private perf, you can see down. Are these characteristics mentioned in...

I have just bought a copy of the Maury Cérès & Dallay catalogue of France, which seems particularly good value, being cheaper than the SG version (although it only deals with France itself) and also Yvert It seems very detailed (which I like), and wonder if anyone from France would like to...

AFIK Air Mail stamps are just about a thing of the past. USPS does occasionally issue a Air Mail stamp, are there any others? I think all mail within the US is transported by air on commercial air liners. Next question; does International Letter Mail travel via air? Who knows air? Ralphael, the...

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FIELD POST 1914 - 1918 from KUNC Lubor, PRAGUE http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0477/index0477a.htm and 475 other on line exhibits from 43 countries: 2580 frames (16 pages), 38 242 pages (without philatelic literatur), 85 average number of pages on 1...

MicroSoft has improved its service by eliminating its free web sites. (Well, that's the claim anyway!) I've opted for the new host suggested by MicroSoft, Multiply. If you are looking for my site, go to: http://napoleonstamps.multiply.com/journal Stan Fairchild

www.myphilately.com has been called the "facebook" of stamp collectors and philatelists, and rightly so. My Philately is a social networking website, not a bulletin board, not a forum, not a newsgroup. If you would like the definition of social networking websites take a look at...

Zimbabwe sidelines currency as economy collapses http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ January 29, 2009 Jan Raath in Harare Zimbabwe sidelined its own near-worthless currency yesterday, declaring the

A few weeks back I found stamps of North Korea for sale on the American market. Then yesterday I found stamps of Iran available in America, no Cuba yet. Has the embargo on these stamps been lifted? Ralphael, the OLD one

Postmaster General John E. Potter tells Congress: "If current trends continue, we could experience a net loss of $6 Billion or more this fiscal year." " I reluctantly request that Congress remove the annual appropriation bill rider, first added in 1983, that requires the Postal Service to deliver...

FYP some coins, seals, emergency-banknotes he http://www-2.net/y23.stock.pictures/19990627185600/index.html 12 more pages are mostly of...

9 th Gärtner Auction from 18th - 27th February 2009 Lot 10250 The starting of the collection Getto Litzmannstadt This significant collection was started when the collector received some postal documents of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt from a Polish friend as a gift.

Hi, Anybody have news of how Mette is doing? Jerry B