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Archive for 2005/07


HR 22 passes

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This bill, being sent to the senate as you read this, eliminates the requirement for USPS to maintain the $3.1 billion escrow fund for ex-military retirees. With this requirement gone, it is likely that the USPS will withdraw its […]

Michel to publish in English

Good news this morning for those of us who collect early Germany to Third Reich period: Michel will publish the Deutscheland Spezial catalog Vol 1 next year in English! This follows last years first time publication of the Michel US Specialized catalog in English, and will likely be followed by Vol 2 of the Deutscheland […]

H stamp - to list or not?

There is a good discussion going on over at VSC about whether the unissued H postcard stamp should be listed or not. Scott’s editor James Kloetzel’s official position is that it will not be listed with it’s own number. Here is a link to the discussion. What do you think?

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Stamp collecting in Baltimore Sun

Here is a nice article about a collector named Frank Shepherd in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun. Shepherd is 84 years old and has been collecting stamps since he was 12 years old. Shepherd is displaying a part of his collection of space topicals at the Joppa, Maryland Library to commemorate the return to space by NASA.

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Canada Post issues Alberta stamp

Yesterday, July 21, Canada Post issued a new domestic rate stamp commemorating the establishment of the province of Alberta. The Alberta stamp features pictures of a natural-gas plant near Fort Saskatchewan, the Calgary skyline and Mount Lawrence Grassi looming over a CPR freight train. The stamp is pictured below.

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