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Archive for 2005/12


Counterfeit stamps found in Scotland

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Great Britain is having problems with counterfeit 1st class stamps recently. The problem was thought to have been eliminated recently, when a bust was made in the Midlands area, but now stamps are surfacing in Scotland. Here is an […]

Sci Fi Wire has bit on Superheroes stamps

Sci Fi Wire, a blog about science fiction, has a post about the upcoming superheroes stamps, due out in July of 2006. The post is really nothing more than a copy of the USPS press release, but it is nice to see stamps make a showing on a non-philatelic site. Anything to bring in more […]

Hockey on Stamps

A hockey website is probably the last place you would think to look for information on stamp collecting. Nonetheless, here is a link to a very nice article on collecting Hockey on Stamps topicals. The article features Dominik Hasek, a goaltender for the Ottowa Senators, who was featured on a 1998 stamp from Czechoslovakia. […]

Duck Stamps Save Extinct Species?

It looks like the dollars raised from Duck Stamps in Arkansas are being lauded as part of the reason an extinct species of woodpecker is still alive. The report was seen yesterday on CNN news online.

The Ivory-billed woodpecker was thought to have been extinct, but Scott Henderson of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission points […]

Stamps have “ruffled edges”?

A reader of the Rocky Moutain News wrote in to ask the following question: Why do postage stamps have “ruffled” edges? The answer, available here, was well thought out and written. It even mentioned the American Philatelic Society! It is just this kind of thing in newspapers across the country and world that is needed […]

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