Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Join Bob Collects Stamps for Shark Week!

Join the Museum of Philately as they look at Famous Collectors.

The 1957 UPU Congress was only the second time that it had been held in North America, the first being the Washington Congress, sixty years prior in 1897. The congress was held in the Parliament Buildings and lasted 7 weeks from Aug 14 to Oct 3, 1957. Three hundred and…

Join Bob Collects Stamps for Shark Week!

Stamp mounts provide a clean, crisp, and professional finish to any page. Constructed from acid-free material, Davo‘s cut to size easy mounts come with an adhesive strip on the back and are indispensable to any collector.

The stamp chat will look at collecting postage stamps, postal history, and picture postcards from the United States Panama Canal Zone. The Taft Agreement will be used as a historical marker to develop a timeline of overprints from Panama and United States used within the Canal Zone. Examples of specialty…

Postal Pleasures Presents: Hungarian Stamps Ep1 Part 1 – Wonderful Mint Stamp Sets From Viewer Szilárd Nemes!

Mark Schwartz, acclaimed author, award-winning exhibitor and ambassador of philately, presented his Champion of Champions, Single-Frame Exhibit entitled “Boston’s Use Of The 1847 Issue: America’s First Stamps from America’s First Post Office.” The Act of Congress, March 3, 1845 (effective July 1), established new and simplified rates. Letters sent up…

Let’s talk about the Queen’s portraits on UK stamps and coins with Richard Philatelist!