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Archive for 2006/01


Stamp Collecting in Malaysia

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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. […]

Ice House cover found

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 […]

2006 Stamps in Sun-Sentinel column

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 […]

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