Steve Walske’s research and collecting interests include; North American blockade-run mail from 1775 to 1865; French Franco-Prussian War mail (1870-71); and American transcontinental overland mail from 1832 to 1869. This presentation begins with the earliest known pre-contract letter from the Rocky Mountains in 1832 and examines how letter communications played…
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Join Trish Kaufmann, past president of the Confederate Stamp Alliance, as she looks at postal innovation during the American Civil War. It was her definitive research on the 3-cent 1861 Postmaster Provisionals, published jointly in both the 1984 and 2000 American Philatelist and The Confederate Philatelist, that resulted in an…
View More Postal History Symposium 2020: Confederate States of America – Postal Innovation during the Civil War
Join Tom Broadhead for a discussion of indigenous peoples on stamps with the American Topical Association.
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Charles Epting of HR Harmer and Michael Cortese of NobleSpirit chats with Cheryl Ganz as she discusses her extensive collection of Zeppelin covers, her role in curating Smithsonian exhibits, including those on the Titanic and FDR, and how the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee chooses designs for new postage stamps. PODCAST…
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Episode 22 – Exploring Zeppelins and Smithsonian Exhibits with Dr Cheryl Ganz
In Episode 6, Stamp Stories celebrates the stamps created to honour Canada’s contribution to space exploration. Blog & Podcast Celebrating Canadians in Space
View More Stamp Stories: Episode 6 – Celebrating Canadians in Space
Join Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck as he looks at St George and the Dragon. He also visits the United Nations dragon statue and postage stamps.
View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.19 – St George & the Dragon
Join Ted Talks Stamps for a brief look at the postal history of Ukraine and why you might want to add this country to your stamp collection.
View More Ted Talks Stamps: Episode 4 – Collecting the Postage Stamps of Ukraine
Join Mi Oficina Philatelic Society as they Show and Tell Colombia! Note: This video is in Spanish.
View More Mi Oficina Philatelic Society: Show & Tell – Colombia
Paul Fraser Collectibles’ Mike Hall reveals his Top 10 rare Chinese stamps.
View More Paul Fraser Collectibles: Top 10 Rare Chinese Stamps
The Wildings were a series of definitive postage and revenue stamps featuring the Dorothy Wilding photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that were in use between 1952 and 1971. The Wildings were the first and only British stamps to feature graphite lines on the back, and the first to feature…
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