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Archive for 2006/08


Physics and stamp collecting

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There is a notable quote from Nobel prize winning physicist Ernest Rutherford that keeps popping up in the news, and really does give stamp collecting a bad name. The quote is this “All science is either physics or stamp […]

Stamps in the Daily Nonpareil

Don’t ask me how to pronounce it (haven’t got a clue), but the Daily NonPareil out of Council Bluffs, IA, has an article today on stamp collecting. The article focuses around a collector, one Paul Christofferson, who has been collecting stamps since high school and is now in his 70’s. The occasion prompting the article […]

Blue Maritius stamp featured in the Independant

In today’s The Indepent Online Edition, writer Jonathan Sale reviews the book Blue Mauritius, by Helen Morgan. In doing so, Sale provides a lot of background information on the stamps, which makes it an excellent mainstream media article about philately, although not a very good book review. I thought the story of the man who […]

Wine and Cheese Stamps Issued In Canada

Yesterday, August 23 2006, was the release date for Canada’s Wine and Cheese Stamps. The purpose of these stamps is to pay tribute to these growing industries. Four domestic rate stamps were unveiled in the heart of Ontario’s wine industry, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Canada is considered to be one of the largest cheese producing nations in the […]

Gee’s Bend Quilts Stamps

Today, august 24 2006, the USPS released the Gee’s Bend Quilts Stamps. In all there are ten .39-cent commemorative stamps, double-sided pane of 20 from the American Treasures Series. The American Treasures stamp series began in 2001 with the Amish Quilts. The following years of 2002, 2003, and 2004 had stamp issues that featured artwork […]

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