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Archive for 2005/07


USPS issues Rio Grande Blankets stamps

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday, July 31, the USPS issued a set of four stamps depicting Native American art on blankets created in the Rio Grande area of New Mexico. The four Rio Grande Blankets self-adhesive stamps feature photographs of blankets from the […]

Another nice article

This time it’s a great primer on stamp collecting from the Corvallis Gazette-Times. The article focuses on a collector named Rosemarie close, who is a worldwide thematic collector, 78 years young. Here is the picture that was included with the article. Not a very good example, I must say. Rosemarie, where’s your tongs? Here […]

USPS releases American Advances in Aviation stamps

Yesterday, July 29, 2005 USPS issued a set of 10 stamps commemorating American Advances in Aviation. The stamps depict 10 different classic aircraft from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The aircraft depicted include: Boeing’s 247 and B-29 Superfortress; Consolidated’s PBY Catalina and B-24 Liberator; Lockheed’s P-80 Shooting Star; Grumman’s F6F Hellcat; Republic’s P-47 Thunderbolt; Northrop’s […]

Rare precancel in Regency Auction

The upcoming Regency auction to be held at StampShow in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will have a rare Scott #905b Los Angeles precancel up for grabs. Bidding starts at $375.00, with 2005 Scott catalog value at $500.00 in italics. 905b is the rare purple shade variety of the 3c Win the War stamp of 1942. The […]

Philatelic Tidbits gets National Exposure

For those who don’t know, the Internet and Stamps column in the August 1st issue of Linn’s Stamp News features this site and Don Schilling’s Stamp Collecting Roundup. Thank you to William F. Sharpe for the mention, and to Bob Parkin for letting everyone know before we received the paper!

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