The first that I know of were issued for the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976, and there was a later (1996) souvenir sheet commemorating the twentieth anniversary of these.

It's a bit of a stretch in terms of the subject of this group, but there is some interest in terms of used stamps on cover for those to be seen at Envelopecollective.com .

As these make it possible for stamps designed to be large to be distorted or not as visually effective when in medium and small?

http://cjoint.com/data/dpaJ1iSNKu.htm Can anyone please give me the year of issue for this Swiss stamp? My Scott 2005 only goes to November 2003. Thanks in advance. -- Tony Vella (Ottawa, Canada) http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com/

This morning I played around with a new computer running the Vista operating system for a few hours. I discovered a few things that gave me food for thought - I was told that effective immediately no more machines with WinXP are being sold new. I may consider making my two XP machines last me...

Just wondering - IF and IF someone have Bosnia Modern (Sarajevo) first booklet, from first (1993) issue "Coat of Arms".???? I search for this items few year, but no-one have it, and few dealers even never saw it. Booklet have 5 strip of 10 stamp, face value 100d, and I need it in2-3 pcs. Anyone,...

Notice that the prestigious listing of stamp shows in Canada and the USA, is now omitting the Edmonton Stamp Show. Is this because there no longer is an Edmonton Stamps show? Or, is it because of too many complaints from dealers who had their stock stolen while...

Hi Hopefully somebody can give me ahelping hand with this cover: http://www.hawk.igs.net/~vsten/pto.jpg What does P.T.O. on the lower left hand stand for? Regards Viktor in Ontario

Good morning!! I make a good order in my Swedish booklet collection with Facit catalogue (2003 edition) and it is not always easy to understand the differencies between similar booklets!! I have particularly a problem with booklet HA16 type A1, A2 and A3! I think that differencies are at the...

My fellow philatelists I thought I knew how to differentiate between litho and photo machins. But last night, while attempting to sort my 1000s of freshly soaked little queens, I could not positively tell one from the other. So, pray tell, if there is a website dedicated to the study of...

I've a nice collection of Machin heads that I fully intend one day to go through, although to what extent I'll flyspeck them is still unknown. For my other collections I make my own album pages and they suffice nicely. However the Machin heads scream for a much more professional look than...

Here in my neck of the woods all of the street side mail boxes are not to be found. Due to vandalism, theft and lack of use all have been placed in the mail box grave yard. How about the rest of the world? Are on street masil boxes stuill popular? Some years back USPS offered residents in some...

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Is anyone able to assist with ID of this niggard design? http://cjoint.com/data/dmgatQiiU8.htm year will be fine. Thanks. My guess would be playwrights, but do not recognise the dials.

Most collectors know, that Serbia and Montenegro seprated, and now they issue separatelly postage stamps. To find more info and scans of new issue, You can visit my two blog pages: for Serbia: http://serbiastamp.blogspot.com and for Montenegro: http://balkanstamp.blogspot.com

i want to know where stamp are made?

Hey everybody, does anyone know where to obtain information about chinese stamps, roughly dating from 1940 - 1950. I got some but have no idea if they are worth anything. is there a website around? thanks alot

http://cjoint.com/data/dixMqQDjsN.htm I cannot find any reference to Lunik II in my 2005 Scott Mongolia. Thanks in advance for any help IDing this one. -- Tony Vella (Ottawa, Canada) http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com/

FYI that entire shown was a forgery. (Queen Victoria to William Shakespeare) (possibly the very first philatelic forgery?) A 17 year old youth, William Henry Ireland, forged the letter to impress his father. 1794 He went on to also forge a Shakespeare play, which was produced and staged ~ once...

Would someone please give me Scott numbers for these two Polish stamps? Can't seem to find them in my 2005. Thanks in advance. -- Tony Vella (Ottawa, Canada) http://indian-biographies.shorturl.com/