If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the perennial discussions among stamp collectors is that kids aren’t interested in in it anymore. Instead, they’d rather do things like play video games or watch television or other obesity-inducing activities. As a new parent, I struggle […]
The North Shore Times, out of Australia, has a nice article in the 28 July edition that highlights the current trend of new collectors to opt for topical collecting rather than the more traditional forms of stamp collecting. I, for one, prefer the more traditional variety, one of each, type collecting, but I can certainly […]
We’ve all seen them in foreign mixtures, those ubiquitous wavy lines definitive stamps from Denmark. As the longest lasting definitive series in the world (if I recall correctly), these stamps are worth a closer look. In this month’s Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Lars Jorgensen writes part 3 of a series of articles on the wavy lines […]
Here is a story of a man that has dedicated his life and much of his resources to stamp collecting. He has put so much into his collection that he is now experiencing severe mental and financial stress. He has also stretched his son’s finances to the breaking point. Stamp collecting is supposed to be […]
July 20th in San Diego, CA the USPS released a new souvenir sheet. DC Comic Super Heroes is sure to be a big hit with collectors and postal users a like. The grapevine has it that there is more internet chatter on this series than ever seen before.
Twenty .39-cent stamps are broken into to […]
 APS # 204320 Visit the American Philatelic Society Website at www.stamps.org |
 PSS # 7600 Visit the Precancel Stamp Society Website at www.precancels.com |