If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today’s Star-Telegram out of Arlington, Texas features a story about Ray Cartier, the executive director of the American Topical Association (ATA) and his wife, Karen. It’s a good article, telling the story of how Ray and Karen got started […]
Good timing by the Post in Ireland, as they release their Planet stamps on the same day (May 25th) as the U.S. issues the Star Wars stamps. Stamp collectors who collect topically in the space arena must be going out of this world with so much in one week.
I find this set of four […]
It has been a bookend week for the USPS and a busy time for stamp collectors. The week started off with the release of the Big Horn Sheep stamp and ended today with the long anticipated Star Wars stamps.
The May 21st issue in Washington, D.C. features the single .17-cent definitive stamp “Big Horn Sheep”. The […]
As another good example of the kind of interest-generating articles I’d like to see in the mainstream press, this article in today’s Sacramento Bee is a good one. Although much of the article is about sports card collecting, the author does point out that the principles apply to any kind of collection. The author states […]
It has come to light that there is a color variation in the Jamestown Souvenir Sheet. Sources at the Fresno, CA and Sacramento, CA post offices have discovered that some souvenir sheets are the dark blue we have seen in recent stamp images, while others are a lighter blue color.
Further examination of the Jamestown […]
 APS # 204320 Visit the American Philatelic Society Website at www.stamps.org |
 PSS # 7600 Visit the Precancel Stamp Society Website at www.precancels.com |