Join Stamps with Sara as she looks at Thaipongal Day. Thaipongal is a festival celebrating Tamils all around the world on January. It marks the beginning of the harvesting season. By celebrating Thaipongal they shows their gratitude to the sun and the animals for helping their agriculture.
View More Stamps with Sara: Episode 12 – Thaipongal Day
Patrick Maselis, President of the Club De Monte Carlo and former President of the Royal Philatelic Society London, discusses the importance of engaging young philatelists at MonacoPhil, and the club’s membership selection process. He also shares tales of his own personal collecting interests, and how he came to hold his…
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Episode 33 – The Club De Monte Carlo with Patrick Maselis
The last two German Zeppelins left a legacy of philatelic material that provides a fascinating opportunity to experience the fame and impact of these most famous technological marvels of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Join the North Toronto Stamp Club as they look at the last two Zeppelins.
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Join Richard Philatelist as he looks at Andorra Postcode Stamp.
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Join the American Philatelic Society for an intriguing and entertaining presentation by two wildly popular speakers, Jasmine Smith, and Bill Schultz, as they explain a highly unusual postage rate. The story begins like this: as a result of an Act of Congress passed on April 9, 1816, a single-sheet letter…
View More APS Stamp Chats: The Scarce Postal 6¼ Cents
In this All About Stamps talk, Phil Waud describes the development of the ‘Jubilee’ set, issued from January 1887. Discover how the ‘small head’ design came about, the varieties to pursue, and how the design influenced subsequent stamps in this expert guide.
View More All About Stamps: Queen Victoria Jubilee Stamps
In this episode, Dr. Christy Pottroff, a literary professor at Boston College, discusses how she uses postal history as a teaching tool in her classes to analyze the work of great writers such as Edgar Allen Poe. She also discusses the great influence that the postal service has had on…
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Episode 32 – Postal History as a Teaching Tool and Literary Influence
C3a – Collecting and Connecting Central, is an on-demand, online learning tool containing videos, learning modules, and resources that cover a wide variety of topic and interest areas. American Philatelic Society members have special access to courses and videos as part of their membership. Details Website: C3a Online Learning Courses…
View More American Philatelic Society: C3a Online LearningSo you may have been collecting stamps for a while or perhaps you inherited a collection, and now you want to take it to the next level. Below is a guide to moving from a Beginner to an Intermediate collector. Intermediate Tips Moving to the intermediate stage is all about…
View More Stamp Collecting: IntermediateA watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper. Watermarks have been used on postage stamps, currency, and…
View More Stamp Collecting: Watermark Detector