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The British Thematic Association presents Barry Stagg and Ladies from Heaven. An often humorous and sometimes sad postcard presentation showing various parachuting ladies and how the styles of female parachutist’s clothing and luggage has changed over the years through postcards.

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Join the British Thematic Association as they present Jon Matthia as he shows the Statue of Liberty on postage stamps from around the world.

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Join the British Thematic Association as they present Andrew Millington and his presentation on Copper (See Mineralogy). Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of…

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The Royal Philatelic Society London presents Grace Davies FRPSL and her extensive collection on the theme of Peace. Grace started her collection on Peace from zero, and by chance, in 1985. Over the years the collection has grown, changed and matured, but creating it has always been a rather random…

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In Episode 6 of Stories Behind Stamps,  learn about Austria Post’s innovations for Corona.

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Philatelic Society of Lancaster County friend and guest speaker Stanley Jones spoke on Christmas Seals Collecting and provided a sampling from his exhibits on the variety of ways to collect Christmas Seals and the related issues. The seals started in Denmark in 1904, and seals from this era from both…

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Lifelong philatelist, postal historian, award-winning author and PSLC/ESPHS President Charles J. DiComo, PhD shares a recent discovery entitled “The H.H. Warner & Co. “Safe Remedies” Major Double Transfer of the Central Vignette on their United States Private Die Proprietary Six-Cents Medicine Revenue Stamp RS258dt.” By the 1850’s, many U.S. Drug…

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Philatelic Society of Lancaster County member, friend and awarding-winning philatelic exhibitor, author and judge Alan Warren presents on “The United States. 1933 Byrd Antarctic Issue: Production, First Day and Other Uses.” This program is an overview of the 3-cent United States Little America postage stamp issued on October 9, 1933.…

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Have you ever thought about buying a hingeless stamp album for your postage stamp collection, and wondered if it was worth the cost? Ted Talks Stamps bought his first one recently and in this episode he reviews and discusses its bad points and good points, so you can determine if…

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