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The “Cheap Postage Movement” and the Advent of the First U.S. Postage Stamp
[Note: This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of StampEd, the American Philatelic Society's digital publication. A PDF is...


Contract Air Mail: The Catalyst of Commercial Aviation
I gave this presentation at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16, 2024, and to the Greater Philadelphia...


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


Celebrating 50 Years of Airmail Service to Bermuda
Update: This post was published in First Days , July-August 2024, pp. 60-69. The layout by editor Martin Kent Miller is fantastic. I...


V-Mail and "Free" Franks from World War II, 1944
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...
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