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Archive for 2008/02


Stamp Collecting - The Art of the Stamp

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was browsing around Google News this morning looking for stamp collecting related news items, when I happened across this: The Art of the Stamp. This is a virtual exhibit on the National Postal Museum’s website, and it is […]

Stamp News - India

It sounds like India may consider starting to issue stamps featuring living people in the near future. This post over at Our Bollywood carries part of an interview with the Minister of Communications who mentions that there is no actual law that forbids India from issuing such stamps, that in fact all that is required […]

Stamp Auctions - Ebay Search Tool

If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent many hours at eBay looking for items for your collection. After all, it is the single biggest auction site on the Internet, and certainly has the widest selection of philatelic items of any site on the Internet. Sometimes, though, it’s kind of difficult to find exactly what you […]

Postal History - An Ottoman Empire Postcard

I found this really interesting post over at Mavi Boncuk about a postcard sent from Constantinople to the US from a US expatriate living in the region in 1916. The card is very well researched and the post is just plain outstanding. It’s really cool to happen across something like this on a blog that […]

Stamp Collecting commercial ala 1979!

I found this over on YouTube, and thought it was just great! It was around this time that I began collecting stamps, and it might have even been this commercial that got me started! Just kidding…I got started when one of my teachers started up a Ben Franklin club in my elementary school. […]

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