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Archive for 2006/08


Joint Issue Stamps - Hong Kong and Austria

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Mark your calendars, for this is the special day (August 22, 2006) of the Hong Kong and Austria joint issue. Even more special are the stamps themselves. Each stamp is crystal-clad, a first in the world of philately. According […]

Missionary Stamps May Be Authentic

Ken Lawrence and Richard C. Celler made the New York Times today, August 18 2006, as they declare set of Grinnell’s Hawaiian Missionary stamps are not a forgery after all. Originally, in 1922, these stamps were declared forgeries. Potentially this new discovery, based on the cancel, could make the stamps worth as much as $10-million […]

Canada Stamp, 50th Anniversary For The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

Today, August 16 2006, Canada brings back the beaver in this .51-cent stamp commemorating the 50th Anniversary For The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). The GDC is an organization whose members are professionals in the field of graphic design. 2,500,000 stamps are to be produced.

This stamp is the collaborative effort of Rod Roodenburg, […]

Canada’s 2007 Stamp Program Makes Headlines

It seems that the subject of stamp collecting is making an appearance in newspapers quite often this year. This is something that has been noted with much pleasure here at Philatelic Tidbits. Once again Philately has made the press. The Sun-Sentinel in South Florida reported this week on Canada’s 2007 stamp program.

I know it […]

South Africa Releases Stamp Sheet

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Africa is commemorated today (August 9, 2006) with the release of a special miniature stamp sheet. The photograph used on the miniature sheet was taken by the prominent South African photographer, Peter Magubane, a photo taken during the […]

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