Proofs

Normally, technological changes reduce economic costs and create social benefits. But technological advances have not worked out very well for stamp collecting and not only in the more apparent ways. First, beginning in the 1950’s postage meters began to reduce the number of postage stamps that were used on letters. This reduced collectors

Over the last two years, the Euro has been under constant pressure. First Greece and now Spain and Italy have seen investors reluctant to purchase their sovereign debt. The European Central Bank has devised a scheme to lend money to banks to purchase loans from these countries as they come due, but what this really…

Argentinian stamps should be among the most popular in the world. Philatelic popularity is predicated on three things

There are four basic tools that philatelists use- watermark trays, magnifying glasses, perforation gauges and stamp tongs. Stamp tongs began to be used by the second generation of philatelists, about 1860. These early collectors, being second generation, saw that collectors who had just used their hands to handle stamps had damaged a great number of…