Holes in Stamps That Are A-OK
Stamp collectors do not like stamps with imperfections, such as holes, but there is an exception and that is for stamps that purposefully...
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Signed First Day Covers from the Wisconsin Tercentenary Issue of 1934
(This post was published in the May-June 2023 issue of First Days (No. 470, pp. 42-49), the journal of the American First Day Cover...
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Cover Postmarked on D-Day, June 6, 1944
This cover was postmarked in Augusta, Georgia on June 6, 1944. That was the date Allied forces landed at Normandy, a day known as...
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Cover Sent from the USS Iowa Anchored in Tokyo Bay at the End of World War II
This is a historically interesting cover (Figure 1). It has a US Navy postmark from August 30, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, Japan. It is franked...
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"How Many Hides Has a Cow?" A DuPont Ad Cover from 1918
Not many American companies can trace back their roots more than 200 years. DuPont is one of those. Organized in 1802 in Delaware - where...
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Airmail, Registered, Special Delivery First Day Washington Bicentennial Cover, 1932
This first day cover from 1932 has a lot going on. Let's start with the stamps. On January 1, 1932, in celebration of George Washington's...
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"Hitler is a Schickelgruber!", 1943
In addition to fighting on the land, in the air, and on the sea during World War 2, the combatants also were engaged in a propaganda war...
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American Armed Forces in Siberia, 1919
While World War 1 was still raging in Europe in mid-1918, President Woodrow Wilson decided to send American troops to Siberia. Russia was...
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"DECEASED" - A Letter to a Soldier Arrives Too Late, 1918
World War 1 - "The Great War" or "The War to End All Wars"- was a bloody, awful affair. Estimates range from 15 to 22 million military...
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Rural Free Delivery Cover from an Ex-Farmer Minister, 1907
We take for granted the delivery of mail to our home and business addresses, but that was not always the case, especially in rural areas....
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A Personally Special George Washington FDC from 1982
First Day Covers (FDCs) are a popular collecting item. Some collectors focus on a single stamp and acquire as many different cachets as...
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The Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, 1908
The Pfister Hotel is a luxury hotel in Milwaukee. The vision of businessman Guido Pfister and his son, Charles, the Pfister was dubbed...
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A 1928 Airmail Cover from One Sporting Goods Dealer to Another
The Post Office began to transport mail via plane, i.e., "airmail," as early as 1911, but official airmail service didn't commence until...
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A Cover from the Ghost of Philatelist Gustave B. Calman, 1901
As a stamp collector, it's fun to come upon correspondence between renown philatelists of the past. One such cover in my collection was...
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A Famous Philatelist's Letter from 1909
The Schuyler J. Rumsey Philatelic Auction on August 26, 2022, had the following lot for sale: 1909, 2¢ Alaska-Yukon, imperf. Tied, along...
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Anyone for a Pabst Blue Ribbon?
Someone at Pabst Brewing sent this envelope to William J. Langson, Secretary of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce on April 17, 1900. The...
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Allis Chalmers Factory Circa 1911
Both my father and grandfather worked their entire careers on the assembly line and as inspectors at the Allis Chalmers factory in West...
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