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Pan American Airways Speed Test of 1946
I exhibited for the first time at the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show May 23-25, 2025. The title of my three-frame exhibit was the "Pan...


P.O. Box 1663
The unassuming cover in Figure 1 was mailed by Doris Watkins from Cambria, Virginia on December 2, 1944. It's addressed to her husband,...


"All Politics Is Local": A Penny Black Election Letter from 1841
One of the first philatelic/social history articles I wrote was titled, “A Prize Agent, A Naturalist, and A Navy Captain: A Penny Black...


The “Golden Age of Flight”: An Airmail Collector’s Wonderland
[A version of this blog was published as the feature story in the July/August 2025 issue of the Airpost Journal.] When I was growing...


U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II Was More Than Pilots: Stamp Collector and Fuller Brush Salesman Robert K. Schink
[This blog was published in the May/June 2025 Airpost Journal] What comes to mind when you think of the United States Army Air Corps...
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