The British public use about 8,000 million postage stamps a year. this means 600 million stamps are printed every month. 30 million every working day. The gum, if required, is thinned down with milk and not water, to make the licking more pleasant.

(US) 1912-1913. 1=A2 Panama-Pacific Used in Film Co. Advertising It is never a simple matter to have Uncle Sam help in your advertising plans but occasionally a business concern is alert to take cognizance of an incident and turn it to advertising advantage. It has more than once been done in the...

A Bluish Paper Observation In recent years I have noticed the bluish paper stamps of 1908-1909 (Scott 357-366) are becoming increasingly rare with guide line straight edges. Can it be that all of these have now been reperforated? - George B. Sloane Sloane's Column

I found the reference I was after re the purple dye of the robes of Roman Senators and Emperors, shown on Mette's example of St Zeno. The delicate gastropod, the aptly named "Murex Triremus" (compare the shell with the ship/galley to appreciate the marvellous connection) as shown on the 2L value...

Columbus and Cabot in Same Boat Linn's Weekly Stamp News, in a recent note, called attention to the similarity of the ship shown on the 3=A2 Columbian stamp of the 1893 issue, and the stamp shown on the 10=A2 stamp of the Newfoundland Cabot issue of 1897. This is an interesting discovery,...

For more than a year, I have been running a constantly updated chart in my newsletter, All About PNCs, showing the differences among the Sea Coast coil stamps. The chart gives the USPS item number, Scott number, plate number and also details all the differences. It is free and available by e-mail...

I posted on my web site a selection of stamps from a bunch I luckily purchased on ebay and I am requesting members of this group to please chime in about the following question: Is it possible that the "red purple" color shown in my article is real? So far, several people who have gone back and...

For the benefit of those regulars here who do not read French and might wish to post stamp images on the web for others, here are some simple instructions for CJOINT. (1) To post an image on CJOINT from your computer a) Go to http://www.cjoint.com b) click on the "browse" button. c) search...

(US) Columbian 1893 Deal Rejected A San Francisco dealer offered $10,000 to the Post Office Dept., for ten thousand sets of the Columbians, 1=A2 to $5, which were to be withdrawn from issue at the end of that year, the "stamps to be cancelled to order, with several different styles of...

Hello, A number of people have been using AlbumEasy, my free application for laying out custom stamp album pages. However, I tend to forget that many people are no longer familiar with the command line. I have therefor decided to upgrade AlbumEasy, it is now a standard GUI application, available...

My collection is single stamps. It makes it much easier to mount and display the stamps. I just noticed the stamps of the Hawaii souvenir sheet, (stamp on a stamp) are used stamps. The five cent stamp has prominent red ink even though it is mint. Theoretically the post office should not accept...

Bavaria Telephone Stamp http://cjoint.com/data/jcarwkxf1D.htm The scan shows a Bavarian Telephone Stamp (Telephone Ticket). It shows a 10pf stamp which paid for a 5 minute telephone call at an official (public) telephone booth (station).

"Stephen" Daye Issue The Post Office Department announces a stamp to commemorate the introduction of printing into the United States. . . . Official announcement says, "On a press imported from England, Stephen Daye in 1639, in a house of the first president of Harvard College, produced 'The...

(US) Presidential Medals Available It may be of interest to readers to know that the medals from which the portrait designs of several of the stamps in the current Presidential set were modelled are obtainable from the U. S. Mint. These are the 5=A2 Monroe, 11=A2 Polk, 14=A2 Pierce, 19=A2 Hayes,...

$1 Presidential, U S I R Watermark While the $1 Presidential stamp printed on revenue paper, watermarked, "U S I R," has been given considerable publicity I have not as yet, seen any explanation as to what happened that brought about this variety. Without having made pertinent inquires, I learn...

The link on the previous message was not working properly. Around September 1st, 2005, Ashton Potter started using End Cards that featured a number in the 'NOTICE' triangle. I have three different examples with an assortment of numbers as high as 30 on the New Mexico Rio Grande Blankets end card....

Australia SG0523 Designer R. Ingpen The 5c design representing a pioneer family is a composite prepared by the artist from various sources. The child (front left) is Ingpen's 6yo daughter, Sophie Ingpen. The mother in the design is the artist's wife's grandmother (Mrs Salmon of Ballarat)

A Pioneer Post Office In Greeley, Colorado, 1889 The Greeley post-office, located in Park Place block, is one of the institutions of the city, and one of which its people are justly proud. http://cjoint.com/data/jfej2zqADX.htm The office is furnished with eight hundred boxes, all of the Morris...

(US) Metered Mail Advertising The (Post Office) Department has approved the use of metered mail indicia as a means of private advertising, but the advertising matter is restricted to the product or service of the firm holding and using the permit. This form of advertising has been permitted in...

(US) 1869, Inverted Center Proofs The four higher, bicolored values or the 1869 issue, exist and are listed with centers inverted, in cardboard proof form. The four proofs were deliberately made and the set includes the 90=A2 Lincoln, with medallion inverted, which as an error was...