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Poway Stamp club

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Poway stamp club, a club in the San Diego, California area was the subject of a nice article in the San Diego Union Tribune. The club meets twice a month, and has annual dues of a whopping $3.00. […]

Merry Christmas from Philatelic Tidbits

We at Philatelic Tidbits would like to wish all of our readers a very merry Christmas. For those of you who do not celebrate the holiday, we wish you all the best anyway, and hope that you are happy for those of us that do.

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Physicist’s work on Snowflake stamps

California Institute of Technology physics professor Kenneth Librecht will have his work displayed on stamps next year. The photographs that are used in the design of the Holiday Snowflakes stamps, due out next October, were taken by professor Librecht. The professor specializes in the study of pattern growth in crystal, particularly snowflakes, and runs a […]

Cookie stamps popular in Myrtle Beach

The new Christmas cookie stamps are apparently very popular in Myrtle Beach, SC, as they have sold more than 400,000 Christmas stamps this year. Currently, Myrtle Beach is completely sold out of Christmas stamps of any kind. Here is an article about the situation in the Myrtle Beach newspaper The Sun News.

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Stamp show in Calcutta India

The Telegraph of Calcutta, India carries a nice story today about a recent stamp show that ended yesterday. The author does a very nice job of describing the highlights of the show, which included examples of the first stamps in Asia, pigeon carried letters, and a rare inverted Queen Victoria Indian stamp. Here is a […]

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