Indians

Native Peoples of the Continental United States - an exhibit by >Fran Adams
"Long before recorded history, Asian ice-age hunters stalked game animals across the 'Beringia' land-bridge to North America in a quest for survival. ..."
 

American Indian Philatelic Society

5460 Margie Lane,

Oak Forest, IL 60452-3727, USA

Publication: Council Fire

Note: The National Philatelic Society (NPS), London

is looking for a copy of Council Fire for their Library.

 

Gay & Lesbian History on Stamps Club (new URL; good c.2008)

The GLHSC was founded in February 1982 by four stamp collectors in the New York City area. It's members are both stamp collectors who collect gays and lesbians on stamps and gays, lesbians and bisexuals who happen to be stamp collectors. GLHSC is a study unit of ATA (#458), APS (#205) and AFDCS (#72).

For a sample copy of their journal, send a self-addressed, stamped #10 envelope with 55 cents in postage (send an IRC if outside of the US) to:

c.2008:
GLHSC, @AOL

PO Box 190842, Dallas TX 75219-0842

old: GLHSC
Joe Petronie
PO Box 515981
Dallas, TX 75251-5981, USA
(new postage rate? data c.1999 Philately.com; no longer posted there)

Old: http://home.earthlink.net/~glhsc/

Older: www.philately.com/society_news/gay_lesbian.htm
 

Sanford L. Byrd's African-American Philatelic Experience

'This site is for anyone who is or may be interested in the collecting of African-American Philatelic material. We hope to inform and enlighten you through these pages. If you have any comments and/or suggestions', please send E-Mail

'We are interested in your comments and will try to reply to all inquiries. If a reply requires a conventional mail answer, please enclose a SASE.' (Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope)
FAX: (517) 839-5942
Postal address:
AAWWSP,
PO Box 1864,
Midland, MI 48641-1864
 

Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections

PO Box 8888, Corpus Christi TX 78468-8888, USA

Hosted at the above AAWWSP site.
 

Stamps on Black History Home Page

"Our Site was selected as a valuable resource for Discovery Channel School's African American History Program for Spring, 1998.

E-mail, Alt URL
 

Famous Women on Stamps - Anne Digranes

"... Because I am Finnish citizen living in Norway I started with Famous Norwegian and Finnish Women on Stamps. If you want to make any comments or swap stamps, please contact me.

See Also: Mary Ockerbloom's (NOT philatelic) A Celebration of Women Writers
 

Famous Portraits on the Stamps of Israel - Sam Zwetchkenbaum

The way this game works is simple! You pick the category from the list below. Then you will be shown a screen JAM-PACKED with pictures of famous people on Israeli stamps. Try to guess who each one of them is, then click the stamp to find out if you're right! Plus, you'll learn more about that person. It's that easy.

Includes:
Famous Women
Political leaders
Zionists...the builders of Israel
Arts and Literature
Rabbinical Portraits
Heroic Lives
Scientists
Musicians

Send your comments to:szwetch@umich.edu
Sam Zwetchkenbaum
- FACINATING! aj

 

Mail to the Stars Collectors Society (Movie Star Mail), OH 43209, USA (E, U)

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Organizations

United Nations Agencies on Postage Stamps

The U.N. first issued stamps in 1951 and features many stamps honoring and commemorating the specialized agencies of the United Nations. These agencies are: .... (a Philately.com info page!)

World Forum Philatelist

Specializeing in the United Nations - site includes an online museum.
(For more on the U.N. see our other pages ...
 

Salvation Army Collectibles - David Miller, @

"... history, philately, free downloads, books and more."

Good section on stamps - especially the 'dubious' cover cachets! - and a Checklist

old URL: http://website.lineone.net/~david.miller./

 

And from Shades Stamp Shop, Christchurch, .nz:

Greenpeace Philatelic Souvenirs

Greenpeace has for several years issued cinderella or local post stamps for use on their campaign support vessels and also in the earlier years from their Antarctic Base situated in the Ross Dependency (a dependency of New Zealand).

A sales outlet; also deals in New Zealand ++

 

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Scouts

"I am looking for Girl Scout stamps. HELP! :-)   - Debbie Lynn

From our guestbook 2/2001 - A.J.
 

"Scouts on stamps" Created by the Scouts of

TROOP 11, P.O. Box 231, Kent, Connecticut 06757-0231, U.S.A. in October 1996.
This page was started as a "stamp collecting" merit badge project.
Please tell us if you have any suggestions

Hallvard Slettebø's Scouts on Stamps Page

50 Years of Scouts on US Stamps

"Starting with a friendship in England with Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, Juliette Low was inspired to bring Scouting to
American Girls. ..."

from: Scouts on Stamps Society International (SOSSI)

22 Cedar Lane, Cornwall, NY 12518, USA

E-Mail the webmaster

Australasian Scout & Guide Stamp Collecting Society

P.O.Box 201, Gladesville, NSW 2111, Australia

Scout & Guide Stamp Club

57 Church Rise, Chessington, Surrey KT9 2HA, UK

Scout and Girl Guide Stamp Club

16 Effingham House, Kingsnympton Park, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 7RU, England (UK)

Scout Filatelisten Benelux

Aan de Bocht 3, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Scoutisme et Collection

(France)

Scout & Stamp Home Page - commercial but interesting,

"Our database contains: 6465 items. (at the time: 1999)
2857 with images and 3608 are not.
'Most of our scout stamp images are scanned by and used under permission from Troop 11, Buffalo Stamp, and Scouter Stamps.'

Resources from Scout & Stamp - Worldwide Web contacts.

E-mail the webmaster
 

Scouter Stamps

PO Box 2683, Plattsburgh, New York 12901

E-mail, Phone (518) 561-8932

Provides the 'Official Album of the Boy Scouts of America'

and a 'Check List/Price List' which is also a link provided from Troop 11.

Libyan Boy and Girl Scouts Stamps - Ibrahim Ighneiwa, Libya
 

Thémascout - Jars Affectueux

In French ... loads of images country by country, Chat, Forum, Lexicom ..  

Buffalo Stamp, NY, USA - Scout (& Space) Stamps Sales incl. topical lists

"We are professionals with over twenty years of experience serving Scout collectors and dealers and are longtime and respected members of such organizations as the

APS, ATA

Scouts and Guides Stamp Club (England)

Scouts on Stamps Society International (USA) (above)

ArGE Pfadfinder (Germany)

World Scout Sealers (Canada) ['Sealers?']

St George Philatelic Society.

E-mail
 

J. David F. McKee, ^{member Cinderella Stamp Club}, Ireland
publishes a Checklist of Scouts, Guides & Brigade Stamps of the World, see Irland link for details!

Global ScoutNet

Not philatelic

Boy Scouts of America - BSA - National Council

Not Philatelic; directly

Calumet Council, Boy Scouts of America

Not philatelic

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Personalities By Name

 

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

A philatelic tribute to the Bengali Nobel Poet Laureate

Rabindranath Tagore appeared in the stamps from the following countries:

INDIA (1952, 1961, 1971, 1987)

ARGENTINA (1961)

BRAZIL (1961)

RUMANIA (1961)

RUSSIA (1961)

SWEDEN (1973)

BULGARIA (1982)

VIETNAM (1982)

COMORO ISLANDS (1977 in this stamp you can find left of Tagore is W.B.Yeats, Bertrand Russell and Ernest Hemingway)

BANGLADESH (1991)

 

Marco Polo In Philately - by Mr. Marijan Segedin, secretary general of the Croatian philatelic federation

The philatelic opus of Marco Polo voyages are quite rich in a last few years. The first edition appears in Italy 1954 (two postage stamps). After that the next edition was commemorative cancellation in former Yugoslavia, it was in use on post office 50260 Korcula in 1984 ...

Mr. Marijan Segedin, secretary general
Croatian philatelic federation
HR - 10000 ZAGREB, po box 259
CROATIA
tel: (private) ++385 (0)1 429002
tel: (office) ++385 (0)1 392924
fax: (office) ++385 (0)1 392925

And this only part of a much larger (not philatelic) work on M.Polo. - aj

See "Marco Polo - home page' below; see also Linn's Stamps News Mar. 1, 1999 pg 30 - a new Marco Polo stamp...

Part of the larger:

Marco Polo - home page

 

Chronologie des timbres au .. (several French personalities and professions)

"From 1846 ..., find the principal contemporary events of, for example, Luc-Olivier Merson:

~It appeared difficult to summarize the life of such an artist without approaching the context of the time.
... Astonishment also and strange impression of the Net surfer for which the 74 years of the life of a man will be summarized with as many clics of mouse: "

Translated via AltaVista's 'Bablefish' - just chose "French to.." and copy in the url from a link above (e.g. http://www.coppoweb.com/merson/fr.merson.php3).
 

Honorary Darwin Stamps - From the British Post Office

An exhibit at Stamp One Auctions, AZ - @

aka: Box & Country Lots (or: Paradise Valley Stamp Co., NH, USA) - c.2008
 

Princess Diana stamp list - from: Linn's Stamp News

This list includes over 460 sets of stamps honoring Princess Diana. In the listing, one asterisk (*) indicates that the item is not listed in Scott, and two asterisks (**) mean that the item is too recent to have received a Scott number.
Click on items with a hyperlink to view full-color images of these issues. Please note that many of these images are large and will require a longer download time.
(Note: this is a Linn's publication and requires prior (free) registration.)

Princess Diana Postage Stamp Checklist 1981 - 1997; commercial site

$5.00 postpaid (U.S.) [+ $2 for foreign addresses'] will get you a hardcopy. - 2/99

www.csj.net/~ciwec/laddstamps/diana.html = '404' 7/1

(Ladd Stamp Centre is listed in our Dealers Directory)
 

Elvis Presley Postage Stamps

Message board, offers stamps via Stampville ... Elvis bio and chronology.

oh well, elvisstamps.com has been taken over by a 'click-thru' directory c.2008 - ajw.

Elvis On Stamps (book)

www.xtn.net/~elvis/ - '404' 5/1

Co-Publisher: Charlie Hodge, ".. one of the best friends of Elvis' entire life...

"Fortunately for Elvis fans, over 37 countries have issued numerous stamps from all phases of his remarkable lifetime...

E-mail: elvis@xtn.net ; >

music on each page and offers a Elvis stamps reference book for sale.

Smokey Mountain Publishing Co.
7690 Asheville Highway
Greeneville, TN 37743

º I think Gary Gompf offers the best in Elvis stamps

See Also: Lex's Elvis Page (not philatelic)

This site was awarded a 'Times Pick' by the Los Angeles Times on 1/7/98.
- great music! aj - c.2001

http://www.casema.net/empty_file c.2008 :(

Graceland - A Division of Elvis Presley Enterprises

..includes the licensing of the name, likeness, image, signature and voice of Elvis Presley
 

The Beatles on stamps! - All of them; the Beatles and the Stamps (circa 2001)
 

Jules Verne Stamps

Just a 'small' part of a site dedicated to many aspects of Jules Verne.
 

Biographies of people on stamps @ Philatelie.com

An extensive system listing people who appear on stamps and what stamps they appear on.
See Also:

Our Philatelic Names Index

Biographical Dictionary Search Page

Not philatelic - but a good resource. aj

 

CMG Worldwide

..the home of properties and personalities considered to be among the most prestigious in the licensing industry. Based in Indianapolis, CMG Worldwide secured its position during the 1970s as the premier company for representing the families and estates of deceased celebrities. Today, CMG Worldwide represents over 200 diverse personalities and corporate clients in the sports, entertainment and music fields including Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Babe Ruth, Bill Elliott, Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Buddy Holly and Bette Davis.

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