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Unusual Use of "Parcel Post Postage Due" Stamps from 1913
(This article was published in The United States Specialist, March 2024, Vol. 95, No. 3, Whole Number 1129, pp. 113-114. A PDF is...


“Our Dear Ella”: A Civil War Soldier's Letter from 1863
This is a Civil War-era cover that includes the original letter from a Union solider to his wife. The cover (Figures 1 and 2) has a...


A Civil War Patriotic Cover from 1862 Addressed to a Future Wisconsin US Senator
(This was published in the Badger Postal History , Volume 64, Number 2, November 2024. A PDF is attached.) Many covers with patriotic...


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...


"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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