Funding the Spanish-American War
Between April and August 1898, the U.S. and Spain fought a war that Spain lost and that resulted in the U.S. taking over Cuba, Puerto...
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Dr. Gabriel L. Miesse’s Stampless Letter in German to Distant Relatives, 1845
In late 2022, I purchase a boxful of covers at a stamp auction. The covers were a fascinating lot dating from the mid-19th century to the...
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New York Postmaster Provisional Covers, 1845-46
In March 1845, the U.S. Congress passed a law establishing new uniform rates of postage: 5-cents for a single sheet letter or a letter...
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National Air Mail Week - A Big Deal in 1938
Airline travel was once glamorous, but today it is ho-hum. Airlines for America, a trade association for the biggest airlines, estimates...
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Preserving Historical Documents - A Duty of Philatelists
Stamp collectors, especially those who specialize in classic covers, are, for all intents and purposes, curators of historical artifacts....
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