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There is almost no aspect of political life that doesn’t have implications for our hobby. The issue of health care reform has more pertinacity to stamp collecting than most political issues because it bears so directly on the long term financial well being of our country and of all of us. And ultimately any business…

I have spent a life time around stamp collectors. My father and grandfather were both stamp collectors, and I got my first album at the age of six. I have belonged to over ten clubs and have been a professional philatelist for over forty years. There is a little known secret about stamp collectors that…

There is no other hobby that is as transnational and pervasive as Philately. In scores of nations, millions of people collect the postage stamp issues of not only own their country but of most of the other countries of the world as well. And collectors in different countries at different times still collect in substantially the…

It’s hard to explain to those too young to remember the excitement of the space program of the 1960s. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957 as the first man made orbiting satellite, there was a minor panic which soon developed into a space race. The rush to put people into space and onto…

Stamp Dealers travel quite a bit for business and as a young man I did my share. One evening some thirty years ago I was visiting some clients in upstate Pennsylvania to purchase their stamps. It was getting late and as usual I was getting lost. I decided to look for a hotel and the closest one…

The “A” grill is the easiest grill of all to identify as it is the only one that extends over the entire stamp. It was the first grill issued, and it didn’t work out very well. The large amount of grilling weakened the paper and made the stamp difficult to separate neatly along the perforations….