's Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links
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's Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links
Exhibits and Stories of Collecting |
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Books from Amazon: Angels to Zeppelins by Donald J. Lehnus - "A detailed analysis of, accompanied by indexes to, the people and things depicted on all 1,355 postage stamps issued by the US Government from 1847 through 1980. ... Recommended for larger general reference collections in all types of libraries."  From a review, "...Extensive philatelic terms are translated into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Greek, etc. Super for figuring out what stamp inscriptions mean and for determining key words in foreign catalogs. |
Stamp One Gallery Selections from Gregg Hopkins' "Number Ones and Other Firsts" - who notes: ...the law authorizing these stamps going into effect on July 01, 1847 was sponsored by Representative George W. Hopkins of the State of Virginia. (I asked via email if he was any relation. - no such luck.. aj.) 
A Short History of Stamps and Collectors - Many first issues illustrated and they received the following message:
The episode I am writing is sponsored in part by the U.S. Post Officeand has to do with stamp collecting and the history of stamps. Your webpage was most helpful and I am only sorry that I didn't find it earlier. I am including it in my script so the animators can find out what some of these stamps look like. ... " - cool - aj 
How A Stamp Is Born - from Sweden's Postal Authority
Collecting The Works Of Czeslaw Slania
Contact: Czeslaw Slania Study Group PO Box 1382 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 (for more: See Also: Other Interesting Sites: 
JCM's International Collection of Artistamps - An exhibit of one of what we call the 4 F's : Fakes, Forgeries, Freaks and Fantasies. Scout Stamp Fakes & Forgeries - Scouts On Stamps Society Int'l (SOSSI Stamps on Black History Home Page Famous Portraits on the Stamps of Israel - made into an entertaing game. Some world records in stamps from the Jr. Philatelists of America club (the JPA has a new URL) San Francisco Cog Wheel Cancels Page by Rick Mingee - Paperless Stamps, .us-CO 80162 Opera - A Philatelic History - Paul den Ouden The Art of Exhibiting: A Journey Into The World Of Exhibiting ... a TMF work at ISWSC Thematics Queensland, .AU An Article: A Question of Rarity (and exhibiting) and another: What's Your Socore? - Exhibit planning. Fran Adam's Links to Exhibiting Chit Chat... StampCollecting, The Favorite Hobby of Millions
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