Argentina

What Can Be Done: Honduras is one of the most philatelically interesting countries in the world. The first issues have a wonderful, primitive appeal. They are very rare but not very expensive. The later nineteenth century and twentieth century is loaded with scarce and difficult to find varieties. Printing methods and printers were unsophisticated in…

For many years, few stamp collections required many steps to be taken for their security. Few were valuable enough for the average burglar to bother with, and even if damaged by fire, the low value of stamps in general meant that they were easy to replace. But the rise in philatelic values in the last…

One of the worse views of humanity is summed up in Leo Durocher’s famous line “Nice guys finish last”. Durocher was a major league baseball shortstop and manager and its not clear what in his life led him to this philosophy. Durocher was famously not a nice guy. He was a drinker, passer of bad checks, womanizer…

As stamps become a viable investment, it is natural that a variety of specialized investment advisers have grown up. If you subscribe to some of the stamp newspapers and magazines listed in the bibliography, you will see the advertisements for these; other investment advisers are beginning to solicit clients on the business-pages of local newspapers…

John Mars was already an older man when I began working on stamps. He, as his father before him, had been a lifelong collector and loved his stamps. He collected France, just France, and collected the way the French do, by the Yvert and Tellier catalog. He collected classics in multiples and Twentieth century with…