If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Another interesting facet of stamp collecting involves the collecting of pictorial cancellations. In today’s Times Union, out of Albany, NY, there is a nice article about pictorial cancel collecting by Shannon Fromma. The occasion involves a pictorial cancellation designed […]
There is an excellent post over on Jim Hill Media blog about the upcoming Disney stamps. The author, Wade Sampson, also does a pretty good job at covering the history of Disney stamp collecting and production. It is obvious that he is not a stamp collector, but he does an admirable job despite that. You […]
Stamp collecting is full of intriguing stories and this one is no different. Today’s Edmonton Journal carries a story about the Postmaster General of New Brunswick who was daring enough to put his own face on a stamp. At that time, only the King and Queen were considered important enough to be pictured on stamps […]
Bisects are another tricky part of our wonderful hobby of stamp collecting. When you happen across them, more often than not they are forgeries of some kind. Legitimate uses of bisects are few and far between in all countries, and most have never had legitimate uses, including the United States. Gibbon’s Stamp Monthly has an […]
Stamp collecting comes in so many different forms, sometimes it can become quite bewildering. Overprints can be among the trickiest aspects of stamp collecting. The Malaysian online newspaper The Star, has a nice article specifically about overprints in today’s edition. You can read it here: Special mark of overprint. The article is very well […]
 APS # 204320 Visit the American Philatelic Society Website at www.stamps.org |
 PSS # 7600 Visit the Precancel Stamp Society Website at www.precancels.com |