Claude Jaeger

Let’s assume the worst-the Democrats call the Republicans bluff and despite constant finger pointing the US government’s ability to borrow additional money ends. What does this mean for philately? My considered judgement, after weeks of thought and study, is that its hard to say. Conventionally, you would think that any kind of panic, such as…

Above is an example of what you can do with postal history and the interest and study that it offers (click on the illustation to enlarge it)

By the way that some collectors squander their money, you would think that they had an overabundance of it. Throughout philatelic history, collectors have rarely been as careful as they should have been. In the late nineteenth century, few collectors scrutinized where they bought their stamps, and so reprinters and counterfeiters abounded during this period. One…

The value of most United States stamps have been falling over the last twenty years, and the CPI has been rising. Critics have claimed that the CPI overemphasizes increases in food, fuel, and housing (until the last few years, at least). We have not understood that price increases have been commodity driven and that many existing goods and non-commodity goods…