A GREAT PHILATELIST There can be few people anywhere, however, tenuous their connection with philately, who was not saddened by the news of the death of Maurice Williams. He was the philatelic journalist par excellence and his name must be known to thousands of readers the world over, to radio...

(RCSD) Ceylon Forged Overprint Here is a scan of (Ceylon Scott #88) with what appears to be a forged overprint. http://www342.pair.com/elerner/stamps/Jun0916/p_0ceyx88-ejl4166.jpg At least, the seller is honest. He has marked the back of the stamp as...

Saluting German Soccer. European World champions 1972 World Cup Champions 1974 franz beckenbauer gerhard muller helmut haller horst dieter hottges klaus fichtel reinhard libuda

A couple of questions relating to the Commonwealth omnibus issues: 1. The 1946 Victory issues of 2 stamps / country do not seem to be in the standard UPU colours - why not ? ... were the values of the stamps issued just not the ones for which standard UPU colours apply, and if this is the...

JACQUES CARTIER STAMP ISSUED JOINTLY BY FRANCE AND CANADA The 450th anniversary of Jacques Carrier's first voyage of exploration of Canada, during which he entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and landed at Gaspe, was commemorated on a stamp issued jointly by France and Canada on April 20...

If you were a lad collecting "British Monarchs" well Barbuda would leave you wanting........ 1970 SG42 thru 78 william1 Queen Vic. 1984 SG710 thru 715 edward7 prince william Poor old Edward8 seems to have missed out.

The first philatelic error. The Mulready envelope, the Angel in the top right side corner has only one leg.

....but that's OK, they couldn't find a man to do the job well enough :). Australia Circa 1915, and interesting piece of journalism, you can almost smell the sweat on the print floor. Acknowledgement: "Australian Stamp News" September 1942

To the uninitiated, this is what the fuss is all about for one Mr. Robert Bateman. The "endearingly hideous" stamps of Bhor. My copy is thus: http://cjoint.com/data/kwlTSRmSda.htm This is what Mr. Bateman writes in 1971 http://cjoint.com/data/kwlZFiyDwJ.htm

For the month of January 2008, Cyprus will have two currencies. The Cypriot pound and the Euro. After January, it is only the Euro. http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/media/pdf/EURPE_CASHCHANGEOVERREVISED.pdf There might be some interesting joint stamp usage here. Blair

A while ago, I wrote in this group about Cyprus, its changeover to the Euro and any effect on its stamps.. Well I can now report that the government of Cyprus decided to issue dual currency stamps to ease the transition for residents. As an example, I offer links to the June 2008 Olympics set. ...

http://cjoint.com/data/hgoC4jULkj.htm I have recently acquired a single and a vertical pair of a Danish 50 øre brown of the original 1905 Waves design with the small triangles and the single colour border around the denomination. I cannot find this particular stamp listed either in my 2005...

Deutsche Post Faces `Bloodbath' as Mail Monopoly Ends (Update2) By Jann Bettinga Enlarge Image The headquarters of Deutsche Post in Bonn. Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Post AG may be defenseless against invaders into its lucrative home turf as the rest of Europe backtracks on promises to throw...

"Riga - Latvian state-owned postal company Latvijas Pasts has launched a new paid service of helping customers to prepare their mail, including licking stamps. As of August, post offices in the small Baltic nation have been charging 0.03 lats (5.8 US cents) for gluing stamps to...

Does this remind anyone of RCSD? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2wme1Uhyhg&feature=related

Because for some reason Victor Manta cannot start a thread.... -- Joshua H. McGee, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, AFDCS, MBPC, MCC, BPS President: http://www.penguinstamps.org Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/

Along similar lines as previous post. Totally useless info for most, but titillating news for the GB FDC collector. For twenty years (1955 to 4/4/1976) there were FDC's being issued from a well guarded and secret source in Australia. RAF FPO 138 FPO 151 amongst others being the R.A.F. base at...

Way back in the years 1864 to 1909 there was a post office built across the border of Quebec Canada and Vermint USA. I am not sure how it was divided or if the clerks inside shared the same room but it appears that way to me. One door was in the center of the two story building and the other was to...

I am not a user of ebay, An offlist member drew my attention to literature I would like to secure, the seller being in Australia. When I selected "ask the seller a question" I was directed to a registration submission from ebay canada? Any ideas why that might be? I wasn't game to continue. R

I think I have all the embroidery stamps, eight, and would like suggestions how to mount on a page in my album....other than lick-n- stick.:-) Eight, is that all there is?? Ralphael, the OLD one