"The Adidas management must have been very pleased when they saw the new sheet of Dutch reduced-rate stamps. Stamp no. 20 features a little boy on a sleigh wearing shoes with the famous Adidas logo: three vertical, slanting stripes." http://web.mit.edu/cms/bcc/blogpics/stamp_advertising.jpg

Measuring Grills Measuring grills on the earlier U.S. issues of 1867-70 will be somewhat easier by this method: Rub a lead pencil on a piece of paper, same as you would do to sharpen it. Lay the grilled stamp face up over this lead marking and pressing lightly on the copy pass the grilled area of...

Hello all, Just a small post to inform you that I have just put online a new version of philatelie.free.fr (at http://www.philatelie.free.fr ). This site present the French stamps and their FDC. It have differents search tools and a forum for each stamp. With pleasure of your visits. Best...

The UK will issue a London 2012 - Host City miniature sheet of six stamps on 5th August 2005 http://cjoint.com/data/icqC6Owy4m.htm The London 2012 - Host City Miniature Sheet features six Special Stamps originally issued in 1996 to celebrate the Games held in Atlanta. These stamps were...

One to a Customer Just as a passing observation, I am always intrigued by dealer advertising where a set of stamps, or a single item, is advertised, "Limited supply, restricted one to a customer." Perhaps collector- readers get the same reaction I do, -- or maybe they don't. But I have often...

Crests vs. Stamp Collecting In the early days of stamp collecting, say ninety years ago, the hobby of "crest" collecting was a strong competitor for favor, particularly so in England. Many stamp dealers of the time also handled crests, cut square and in various forms, in sets and packets

Rodney wrote: Then I had a few from Venezuela that had no showing in Gibbons either. ==================================== Rodney: Post a scan and we'll take a shot at it.

Delivery More Certain If Unpaid In olden days when to prepay or not to prepay postage was optional with the writer of a letter, many felt that letters from distant points were more certain of delivery if the Post Office Department was obliged to collect postage from the addressee on delivery. A...

in french catalog Yvert et Tellier , ain-tab is a separate entry in french colony . turkish stamp with french overprint. where it is located in Scott catalog ? thanks in advance Chris

Modern U. S. Covers The collector with limited means, if he has a particular liking for stamps on original covers and cannot afford the expensive earlier material, could well give attention to the U.S. covers used, say, in the 20th century. A really interesting collection of wide variety and...

Arrange Own Finds in Attic Most of us dream of the "find" of old stamps and covers to be made in an attic, somewhere, sometime, but most of us never quite make it. Still it is a pleasant thought on the dull days, -- that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Perhaps, if you have an attic, you...

Nicaraguan 1890 loco and telegraph set. The master die impression must have been "enhanced" for all the Peso values. I note the 2 peso green is the only issue that missed shading in the value tablet, and the 1 peso has a different frame. Just thought I would share that with you :)

Boy, I am having a rotten old day with Catalogue blindness. I have several issues regarding "Protection of children of Indigenous peoples" with the W&F overprint, can anyone offer any info on those please? The best I could find on Yahoo was French Colonies Vichy? The other query is the W&F...

More Mad Magazine Stamps Rock + Roll Stamps that you will never see... http://www.anthonysnyder.com/art/gtmadrockstamps.jpg (apologies for the poor scan quality) Blair

(Apologies to the group, but my e-mail to a friend, "Napoleon," bounced back to me. I know that he's a lurker in these here parts.) Napoleon, I responded to your query about show covers, but your e-mail bounced back to me. Full mail box? Josephine

This is the topic on which Bob Ingraham was trying to contact me. The old military advice still applies: salute it if it moves, paint it if it doesn't, and NEVER volunteer. Having seen that our club show needed someone to print envelopes for our club show cachet, I volunteered. Our publicity...

(Apologies to the group, but my e-mail to a friend, "Napoleon," bounced back to me. I know that he's a lurker in these here parts.) Napoleon, I responded to your query about show covers, but your e-mail bounced back to me. Full mail box? Josephine

anyone owning these sheets, please contact me ... I would appreciate you sending me 175 dpi scans ... to assist a research project thank you MC STRATHDEE ISJP 3399

Winning of the West Copied from an old western poster: "Notice! To Thieves, Thugs, Fakirs, and Bunko-Steerers, among whom a Alias 'Off Wheeler,' Saw Dust, Billy the Kid, Billy Multin, Little Jack, The Cuter, Pockmarked Kid, and about Twenty Others.

Legendary recording artist, Ray Charles, will have a Los Angeles post office named in his honor next month. For more on this story, go to http://www.stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.com. I'm curious to find out what's involved to have a post office named after you or someone else? I know being...