[The blog as seen below was published in the 1st quarter 2025 issue of The Alaskan Philatelist . A slightly different version was...

[Published in the Yule Log , Apr-May-Jun 2025 issue: ----------------------- I describe myself as an eclectic collector of postal...

[This article appeared in the May 2025 issue of "Badger Postal History," a copy of which is attached.] ----------------------------------...

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...

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

Introduction When I was growing up in the 1960s, I was captivated by the space race. I don’t remember Alan Shepard’s first Mercury flight...

[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...

[Note: This blog was published in the Jul/Aug 2025 issue of the Collectors Club Philatelist , the journal of the Collectors Club of New...

In 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service decided that it would attempt to become the first group to circumnavigate the globe by airplane. This...

[This article, in slightly different variations, has appeared in three publications: (1) the version in this blog was published in The...

(This post was published in two places: A postal history journal named La Posta for the 4th quarter of 2024 and in two parts in Le...

I gave this presentation at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16, 2024, and to the Greater Philadelphia...

Some stamp societies invite collectors to submit one-page exhibits that are then displayed on their websites. These are noncompetitive...

Update: This post was published in First Days , July-August 2024, pp. 60-69. The layout by editor Martin Kent Miller is fantastic. I...

During World War II, just like every conflict from the Civil War forward, the delivery of mail from the home front to the battlefield and...

One of the major milestones in postal history was the establishment of transpacific airmail routes. The first route to be established was...

Update: This article was published in the American Air Mail Society's Air Post Journal for June-July 2024. A copy of this article is...

Attached is a presentation that I delivered at the Philatelic Gathering on March 23, 2024. It's the final version of a presentation that...

Stamp collectors do not like stamps with imperfections, such as holes, but there is an exception and that is for stamps that purposefully...

(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...