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Archive for 2005/11


Pos Malaysia Has Busy Week

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Pos Malaysia is busy these days, as they prepare for a new stamp release and Stamp Week too. This Friday, December 2nd, is the kick off for both events.

Special stamps and first day covers featuring the Malaysian Batik will […]

Pane of Invert Stock Exchange stamps sells for $373K

Naomi Felblinger has got to be one of the happiest people alive today. For an initial outlay of $11.60, Ms. Felblinger realized $373, 750 for her pane of 1992 Stock Exchange stamps with 12 centers omitted and 28 inverted center stamps. Ms. Felblinger reportedly kept the pane in a sock drawer for 13 years before […]

Stanley Gibbons starts it own stamp investment scheme

Not to be outdone by the Afinsa/Escala/Manning menage a trois, Stanley Gibbons has now started it’s own rare stamp investment scheme. Claiming an unrealistic 10% per annum investment return on these investments, Gibbons plans to capture a large share of that through high management and transaction fees. It sounds to me that it would be […]

Jack Benny stamp again?

Laura Leff of Oakland, California, is starting a petition to get Jack Benny honored on a stamp once again. The last Jack Benny stamp was in 1991. So why a Jack Benny stamp now? Benny was famous for replying to the question of how old he was as 39. With domestic first-class postage increasing to […]

Manning in hot water over stamp investment scheme

Afinsa, Escala Group, and Greg Manning Auctions are intertwined in an international investment scheme that threatens to shake the foundations of the stamp market worldwide. With Afinsa now controlling a purported $1.4billion in investment assets, all in supposed rare stamps, the world stamp market is poised to experience a crash the likes of which have […]

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