Philatelic Tidbits - Stamp Collecting News and Opinions

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today, January 24, Ascension Island releases a set of stamps featuring the sport fishing of that region. Available are one souvenir sheet, a block of four stamps, an FDC with souvenir sheet, and an FDC with the block of […]

Today, there is a nice article on stamp collecting in Malaysia on Bernama.com, the Malysian National News Agency website. Stamp collecting is an immensely popular hobby in Malaysia, and growing rapidly by all accounts, even in the youth population. I wonder what they’re doing right over there, that we could model and adopt over […]

One of the most famous covers in United States postal history has been recovered after more than 38 years. The cover was stolen from the collection of J. David Baker, a specialist in postal history of the 1869 series. Mr. Baker died several years ago, but received an insurance settlement for the cover shortly after […]

Richard Carr writes about the 2006 USPS stamp program in his weekly stamp column in the Florida Sun-Sentinel today. This column is one of the last stamp related columns left in this country. As I’ve stated many times before, I wish that we had many more like this around the country, as it could only […]

The Star online, the online version of Malaysia’s newspaper The Star, features a news story on Castles on Stamps today (yesterday due to International Date Line). It’s a very nice storythat highlights the history of castles and castles on the stamps of Europe. I wish we would we see more stories like this in the […]