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Adenauer, Konrad

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:49 +0000

Submitted by Akphilately Blog The question of the German Rhineland kept the peacemakers busy. Ideally, it was to be a buffer zone between France and Germany, and various ideas were floated. Demilitarize the area, or make it part of France even. The inhabitants had never got used to Prussian rule, but becoming French was probably a [...]

Roundup Selected as Stamp Spotlight Blog on Trakkrz.com

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:21:00 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog The Stamp Collecting Roundup has been selected as the Stamp Spotlight Blog of the month by Trakkrz.com. What is Trakkrz.com? According to the site’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), “Trakkrz.com is the place to ‘trakk’ the best individual bloggers on the web by topic. We don’t follow news feeds, and generic search results [...]

Holiday Mail for Heroes

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:20:14 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog While today is a Federal holiday, it is business as usual for our service personnel. Frank McDade writes the Roundup to ask readers to send holiday cards with messages of thanks and cheer to service members, veterans and their families. Frank is part of the 2009 “Holiday Mail for Heroes” [...]

World’s First Multimedia Stamp

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:13:40 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Crienglish.com reports, “A new series of stamps entitled ‘The Tang Dynasty’s Three Hundred Poems’ is stirring up a wave of excitement in a market that has remained pretty quiet for almost two decades.” According to an article by report Chu Daye,”Some say that this new stamp collection is nothing short of [...]

Book on Simon Taxis Receives Major Italian Philatelic Journalist Award

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:11:59 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Italy’s Philatelic Journalists Guild has awarded the book Simon Taxis and the Posts of the State of Milan During the Renaissance by Giorgio Migliavacca and Tarcisio Bottani the prestigious “Fulvio Apollonio Prize” for the best postal history book published in 2008 according to a report on the BVI News website. Last [...]

Saddam Stamps Skyrocket in Iraq

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:10:52 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Stamp prices showing Saddam Hussein are rising sharply in Iraq according to a report by Sammy Ketz of American Free Press (AFP). Kamal Kamel, who runs a stall selling stamps in the Bab al-Muazzam district where the Iraqi Philatelic and Numismatic Society meets is quoted in the piece as saying, “Before [...]

Why Benny Hill Was Bumped from British Stamps

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:09:19 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog UK’s Daily Mail reports documents reveal comic Benny Hill was dumped from a set of Royal Mail stamps because of concerns about his “saucy” style. According to the paper, “Slapstick, burlesque and double entendre were always his hallmark. Some critics accused the show of sexism but Hill maintained that the female [...]

New National Postal Museum Exhibits Go Online

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:47:34 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog The National Postal Museum has announced that two new online exhibits are now featured on their Arago website. The story of the development, implementation, and growth of Rural Free Delivery (RFD), and its impact on rural America, is the topic of Bringing the World Home. Click here to view. And to celebrate the [...]

The Postal Service’s ‘Get Well’ Plan. Greeting cards!

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:56:50 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Columnist Ed O’Keefe writes in the Washington Post, “Next time you visit the post office for stamps, you might also be able to buy (and send) your brother his belated birthday card.” Ed reports, “The U.S. Postal Service has started selling Hallmark greeting cards at some post offices, a one-year experiment [...]

Abdullah, Ruler of Jordan

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:46:39 +0000

Submitted by Akphilately Blog 1920 was a disastrous year for the Arabs: They lost Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and finally Mesopotamia as well. Britain and France were coming to an agreement on how to split up the area, in April 1920. Britain got the Palestine mandate. But as rebellion was breaking out among the Arabs, the Brits, [...]

Santa Fe Railway Post Office (RPO)

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:41 +0000

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First Philatelic Album and Oldest Stamp Collection

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:59 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog A never-before-revealed album — believed to be the first manufuactured philatelic album — is featured along with a sequel about the world’s oldest stamp collection in the December issue of Scott Stamp Monthly. Scott catalog editor James E. Kloetzel discloses the existence of the album in print for the first time. [...]

American First Day Cover Society Gets New Website

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:21 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Allison Bernard Gallaway reports on Facebook that the American First Day Cover Society has redesigned their website. The new website features information about the society, a listing of local chapters, a group discussion board, tips on making and collecting first day covers, contests, auctions, links to related sites, a cover [...]

Florida Residents Send Message to U.S. Postal Service — On Coconuts

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:48:40 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Lona O’Connor writes in the The Palm Beach Post, that hundreds of coconuts with polite messages asking U.S. Postmaster John Potter to reconsider the proposed closing of Florida post office have been sent to USPS headquarters in Washington. Because the Lantana, Florida post office is on the chopping block for the [...]

An Accidental Stamp Series

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:47:31 +0000

Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog BeyondThePerf.com reports USPS illustrator Nancy Stahl fondly remembers the first time she saw one of her designs — in a neighbor’s garbage can. Nancy is quoted in an article titled An Accidental Series as saying,”I hadn’t seen it printed yet. And there it was, sitting in the trash on the corner [...]