Why Should not Philately Live? In all seriousness we ask it: Why should philately not live? Does it deserve to live? What should it possess to make it worthy to live? That philately may live and grow, until from sea to sea, from land to land, the fair folds of its banner may be wafted on the...

Conditionitis Where a rigid standard of perfection condition in United States stamps becomes the all-important governing feature in the formation of the collection, the underlying propulsion is invariably the financial angle, the resale value, the expected profit. I think this is generally...

Somebody discussed this recently suggesting the black line (here shown on the top) indicates the stamp from a booklet printing. http://cjoint.com/data/itoJLzJH0e.htm Would this be the case here? only I cannot find a booklet listing for this issue in my aged Scott Cat. Thanks

I came across a cover in a box that I acquired lately. There was a cutting from a 1972 auction catalog that says "No. Pole Issue Imperf on cover with Zeppelin "Malyguin" and Leningrad pmks. Priced in 1968 "Seiger" Zepp Cat DM 200.00." The cover can be seen...

I've got a US stamp I'm unclear on identifying. It was filed as a Scott #93, which would indicate a grill. I don't see a grill, on the front or the back, even with a light held at an angle to the surface. Is there another way to identify it as a #93 rather than a #73? Watermark techniques or...

test anyone see this?

Upside Down Stamp Protest A recent letter in the Voice of the People column in the New York Herald-Tribune suggested that all of those who oppose the present Washington administration might manifest this disapproval by turning their stamps upside down on all their mail matter. If the movement...

I have a stock page of pre-war Malaya and Japanese occupation stamps which I would like to reference and value. Could anyone direct me to a website specialising in this area which displays pictures of stamps. Many thanks, Steve. -- ONSPEED, the REAL alternative to Broadband £1.99 - $3.67 - 3.25?...

A read for you for a cold wintery day, I find it interesting to hear how the judges comment on exhibits. Nothing really heavy here, perhaps for the entry level student. http://cjoint.com/data/irctzWQE7k.htm

Stamps shmamps! From now on, it's postcards for me! Well, not really, but this is kind of amazing.... About six weeks ago I was contacted by a photo researcher of a U.S. topical magazine about the Civil War and the Old West. She had found my web page about my home town, Silver City, New Mexico,...

Hi, Are there any collectors of US revenues in this newsgroup who are interested in revenues with perforated initials or perforated cancellatons? Art

New (US) 30=A2 Airmail Stamps Discounted on Nassau Street http://cjoint.com/data/isqv2zBoKy.htm Postmaster Albert Goldman announced that 155,733 of the new (US) 30-cent trans-Atlantic airmail stamps (Scott C24) were sold at the New York, N.Y., post office on the first day of issue, May 16,...

(US) Certified Mail Stamp http://i11.ebayimg.com/03/i/04/09/f4/1a_1_b.JPG I think we may well assume that the recent 15=A2 Certified Mail stamp was an issue never intended for permanency and that within a comparatively short time, perhaps a year or so, it will be discontinued as unnecessary.

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Steam Press Printing Banned In earlier days all recess plate printing of postage stamps was done on hand presses, until in the early 1880s steam power presses were introduced at the American Bank Note Co. Their work in the production of postage stamps was so efficient and satisfactory that...

Steam Press Printing Banned In earlier days all recess plate printing of postage stamps was done on hand presses, until in the early 1880s steam power presses were introduced at the American Bank Note Co. Their work in the production of postage stamps was so efficient and satisfactory that the...

Gibbons, London, Condemns Farley Issue Terming the issue "waste-paper." Stanley Gibbons of London, decree that the Farley imperforates will not be listed in their catalog, just as the Colonial Dominions are announcing the Silver Jubilee outfit of 176 varieties with a combined face value of well...

I have a green Hitler's Head stamp - Is it worth selling please? Brian

Mourning stamps, generally, are characterised by their colour black or purple, and, in the most part, by the inclusion of a black border around the stamp. In this emancipation commemorative, converted to a memorial, an inscription was added to each stamp, but the black stamp border was relegated...

FDR Started (Collecting) Stamps at 9 Documentary evidence was recently published in Life magazine that Franklin D. Roosevelt started his stamp collecting when he was 9 years of age. Writing to his aunt, Deborah Delano Forbes, in a letter dated, April 10, 1891, he pleads, "Please tell Uncle...