Mostly stamps. Usually US Coast Guard Postal History. Occasional pontificating.
The idea of kids and stamp collecting has been quite a topic on the stamp collecting boards and in the magazine for quite some time. Most collectors want kids involved. Just about everybody has an ....
Simply called newspaper wrappers, these philatelic items have always held my interest. The unknown periodical's delivery took place during the Civil War, in Virginia. The address is simply Commandant, 53rd Regiment, Campbell. Inside is the ....
Conversations on forums often center around stamp values. They are often couched in terms focusing on catalogs, but I suspect most every collector hopes their stamps are or become worth something. A lesson in stamp ....
A few years ago, I'm doing some research and I ran across a website devoted to stamps from Dead Countries. My interest level shot through the roof and since, dead countries have been a real ....
Today, August 4, 2020, the U.S. Coast Guard turned 230 years old. In May, 1988, six days after my 19th birthday, I boarded a plane that took me to Philadelphia and then caught a bus ....
The USPS recently announced a new set of stamps featuring Bugs Bunny. There will be ten stamps featuring the famous cartoon character. Adding to it a previous stamp featuring Bugs Bunny, and that brings the ....
My inaugural philatelic acquisition took place many years ago in 1978. I'd turned 9-years-old just a couple weeks previous when I received a very curious item from an aunt. (more…)
On the various philatelic discussion forums, the subject of stamp topics arises from time to time. It seems to coincide with a stamp release that is likely to have some pretty insane popularity. (more…)
The collecting of Christkindl covers is a fairly popular sub-specialty of people who collect stamps related to Christmas. I have a few and they are beautiful. Christkindl. So there are a couple of definitions here. ....
Norman Rockwell, the great American painter, painted some 51 annual illustrations for an annual Boy Scout calendar in his career. I was a Boy Scout from the time of 7 or so (Cub Scouts) until ....