Metropolitan Air Post Society
Saturday, July 5th, 2008: Airmails, Clubs & Societies, Links, United StatesThe Metropolitan Air Post Society, or MAPS, is a non-profit association of aerophilatelists. It started as the Metropolitan Airmail Cover Club, MACC, in 1941.
Great Scott!
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008: "The Postage Stamp", Dealers, Errors, Nostalgia, Philatelic Journals, United StatesRichard A. Turton. Mr John Walter Scott This entertaining account was first published in The Postage Stamp (October, 1913). It ran as first in a series under the title "Postage Stamp Romances: The True Stories of the Stamp World, Collected by Cornelius ...
American Air Mail Society
Sunday, June 29th, 2008: Airmails, Clubs & Societies, Links, United StatesThe AAMS was founded in 1923, and is the second oldest aerophilatelic society in the world with over 1,500 members worldwide. The AAMS publishes the monthly magazine The Airpost Journal & the Jack Knight Air Log, as well as the ...
The First Hawaiian Philatelic Exhibition: A £14,000 Display in Honolulu (1913)
Saturday, June 28th, 2008: "The Postage Stamp", Exhibitions, United StatesThe following account was first published in The Postage Stamp (June 1913). As we have noted on several occasions there is an active philatelic life in the Territory of Hawaii. The latest development in the activities of the Hawaiian Philatelic ...
The New York Exhibition (1913)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008: Exhibitions, Printers, Printing Processes, United StatesThe following account of the first New York Stamp Exhibition was written by Fred J Melville and originally published in The Postage Stamp (1913). Today has proved a great day for American philately. The International Philatelic Exhibition opening in New ...
The New York City Post Office: 1600s - 1870s
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008: Post Offices, Postal History, United StatesFirst published by T. B. Thorpe Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (October 1871). There seems to be no preserved evidence that for very many years after the settlement of what is now known as the city of New York there was any ...
Pan Am Airlines: As Luck Would Have It
Monday, June 9th, 2008: "NSW Philatelist", Airlines, Airmails, Cuba, Philatelic Journals, Postal History, United StatesEd Wolf. J.E. Whitbeck was a worried man. He felt his job was on the line before he had a chance to prove himself. Here it was October 19 1927 and disaster was about to strike.
Sales Control Stamp Booklets
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008: Booklets, Clubs & Societies, Nostalgia, United StatesJeremy A. Lifsey. This article was originally published in Linn's Stamp News, July 2005. In the summer of 1890, 17 year old Robert M. Miller founded the Sons of Philatelia (S of P). He wanted to establish a philatelic society that was ...
Advertising in United States Stamp Booklets
Thursday, May 15th, 2008: Booklets, United StatesJeremy Lifsey. This article was first published in the United States Specialist, September 2005. There isn’t any! That is, there isn’t any commercial advertising designed to sell a product. And there never was. Not even commercial advertising designated as being tasteful or ...
Ernest A. Kehr, Philatelist & Prolific Writer About Stamps (USA)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Philatelic Biographies, Postal History, United StatesMaurice Mishkel. The following item appeared on Ebay Australia and was withdrawn by the vendor prematurely: “Advertisement Cover produced by The Royal Horticultural Society of NSW to promote the World's Buckjumping Championship held in Sydney during the Royal Easter Show from ...
Anchorage Philatelic Society
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008: Clubs & Societies, Links, United StatesThe Anchorage Philatelic Society is Alaska’s oldest and largest stamp collecting club. The club was founded in 1950 and has met regularly ever since. The Anchorage Philatelic Society meets from 7:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. on the Second and Fourth Wednesday ...
Spain: First Floating Trade Fair Stamp (1956)
Saturday, May 10th, 2008: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Ships, Spain & Colonies, Stamp Profiles, Topicals or Thematics, Trade Fairs, United StatesThis interesting stamp (SG 1254/Scott 848) was issued 1956. The ship, CIUDAD DE TOLEDO, with a tonnage of 10, 123, was used to transport Spain’s first floating Trade Fair of national products around the world, was built by the Cia Euskalduna ...
Southeast Federation of Stamp Clubs
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008: Links, United StatesSoutheast Federation of Stamp Clubs is an inclusive umbrella site for many US stamp clubs in the southeast of the country.
The U.S. Newspaper Stamp (1892)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008: Revenues, United States“The Antiquarian” This fascinating article, by W.E. Haynes, originally appeared in Philatelic Era in 1892. It should be of particular interest to U.S. revenue collectors:
US: Connecticut Tercentenary Stamp (1935)
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008: Stamp Profiles, United StatesThis stamp profile regarding the design of the 1935 Connecticut Tercentenary stamp and other related information, was originally published in the U.S. philatelic magazine Stamps (April 6, 1935): April 26, 1935, has been set as the first day of sale for ...
United States National Museum Collection (1914)
Monday, April 21st, 2008: Collections, Philatelic Biographies, United States“The Antiquarian” This is an article, by J. Murray Bartels*, on the early days of the United states National Museum Collection, was originally published in April, 1914. “Mr. Joseph B. Leavy, of New York, has been “on the job” at the U.S. ...
A Tale of Two Submarines in Sydney Harbour (1960)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Ships, United StatesMaurice Mishkel. As luck would have it, these 2 covers turned up on the same day from two different sources, and surprisingly the two submarines noted were related in time and place, even to the point that the two had been ...
Duck Stamps
Friday, April 11th, 2008: Glossary, United StatesHunting permit stamps of the USA, so called because most issues feature some species of duck or other water bird in the design.
“V” Mail Service
Friday, April 4th, 2008: Airmails, Glossary, Great Britain, Military, United StatesSpecial airmail service, operating in 1942 for United States’ servicemen. Similar to the British Airgraph Service.
R.M.S. Homeric
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008: Paquebots, Postcards, Shipping Lines, Ships, United StatesWilliam Cochrane. Having always had a love of ships and naval history, I suppose, as a philatelist, it was only a matter of time before I developed an interest into maritime postal history. Like many philatelic pursuits it has become ...