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Stamp Dealers' East Coast Spring Show Worth a Visit

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:49:02 +0000

Bigger stamp shows can be one-stop shopping for all things stamp collecting and related. And April 11-14 collectors on the east coast will be able to attend one of the biggest: the American Stamp Dealers Association's Spring Postage Stamp Show 2013.

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Philatelic Literature: An Investment That Pays Off

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:39:28 +0000

You stamp collectors that are reading this are here because you have a greater need to know about collecting stamps than just putting them in their albums.

Moving around the About.com Stamps site you can find information about how to buy and sell stamps, what stamp collecting areas are most popular, how to meet other collectors and how to properly store and care for your stamps.

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Mr. Zip Returns to Stamps!

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:03:39 +0000

Mr. Zip has returned, and in a rather upscale way. Now appearing on the Grand Central Terminal Express Mail stamp and the Arlington Green Bridge Priority Mail Stamp, it seems our selvage-dwelling friend is traveling in style on stamps that have a $19.95 and $5.60 face value, respectively.

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Mainstay LA Stamp Dealer Doling Leaves His Philatelic Mark

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:25:04 +0000

If you'd like a good picture of what the stamp business in the real world is like today, you might check out this article at the Los Angeles Daily News by Dennis McCarthy.

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Discovery's Auction Kings' Potential $1,000,000 Stamp

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:10:23 +0000

The Discovery Channel's show Auction Kings has taped a segment featuring an opium tax stamp. Narcotics tax stamps were in use from the early part of the 20th century up until about forty years ago. They are listed in the Scott Specialized Catalog of United States Stamps and Covers.

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Classic Stamp Collection to be Auctioned by Thrift Store

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:48:53 +0000

Richard Frajola, professional philatelist and host of the Philamercury, Frajola's Board for Philatelists posts that an exceptional stamp collection is up for silent auction. Offered through Impact Thrift Stores of Pennsylvania a donated collection including the first U.S. issue, high value Columbian stamps, Confederate States, as well as classic selected worldwide up to the year 1893. Though condition is mixed, with some of the stamps stuck to the album pages, it is also believed that there are stamps of unrecognized value in the collection that would add further to its already high catalog value.

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More Stamp Collecting Info Just a Click Away

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:25:55 +0000

There's a lot more to About.com Stamps than these blog posts. Dig a little deeper for more information that will help you enjoy your hobby to the fullest, while saving -- and even possibly making -- money. Links to recent articles that you'll want to catch up on follow. Click the titles to be taken directly to the articles.

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Prexies Give Stamp Collectors Variety

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:39:04 +0000

Perhaps the 1938 U.S. Presidential Issue of stamps, aka Prexies, are the modern stamps that are most collected on cover. After all, they aren't exactly the thing that turns the basic stamp collector on. But their wide use over many years produced a great number of covers of interest to postal history collectors. And as the collection of Prexies on cover comes more and more into fashion, regular stamp collectors are increasingly drawn to the area.

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Quick Take on Stamps: The Other Postal History

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:15:13 +0000

"Presidential Study Commission recommends U.S. Postal Service cancel Saturday mail deliveries as economy measure and that officials study the possibilities of electronic mail transmissions." May 2, 1977
(Entry from Linn's World Stamp Almanac, Third Edition, 1980 Amos Press, Inc.)

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Get Linked Into Stamp Collecting

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:03:57 +0000

For those collectors -- and dealers -- who have a LinkedIn account, you now have the opportunity to join American Stamp Dealers and Collectors, a group helmed by Don Schilling. Don is also the proprietor of the essential Stamp Collecting Round-Up blog, an eminently readable free (of course) blog that offers news and views to stamp collectors of every level and interest.

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