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Archive for 2006/12


StampWants to give away a Jenny!

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I always love an opportunity to post a gratuitous shot of the Inverted Jenny, so the following was happy news, indeed. StampWants is an online stamp auction/marketplace that I have used several times over the past year or two, […]

Huge Stamp Collection Sold in New Zealand

Ray Walkham of New Zealand has recently sold his huge 900 volume stamp collection, valued at 7 Million dollars (NZ), to an auction firm in New Zealand. This has got to be one of the biggest collections I have ever heard of. I wonder how many bookcases it took to hold that collection? Mr. Walkham […]

Counterfeit APEX Certificates

It was announced on December 16 through a press release on Virtual Stamp Club, that there have been 5 low-quality counterfeit APEX certificates discovered in Hong Kong. APEX is the expertising arm of the American Philatelic Society, and is one of the more popular, and most trusted, expertising services in the United States. The press […]

Interview at Ephemera Blog

For those of you who may be interested, there is an interview with yours truly over at the Ephemera Blog. In the interview, I discuss my collecting interests and involvment in the stamp collecting world. I also discuss what I feel should define success as a collector. Go have a look…you might find it interesting.

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Tawains New Years Greetings Stamps

On December 1st of this year, Tawain issued a set of New Years Greeting stamps. This upcoming year will find the Chinese Lunar New year falling on February 18, 2007. And what creature commemorates the Lubar New Year for 2007 you ask? The Pig!

Chosen for this years designs are the works of Miss Wu Jen-feng, […]

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