Paul Fraser Collectibles‘ Mike Hall explains how to get the best price for your stamp collection.
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Mourning covers were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. Defined by their black border around the edge of an envelope they carried messages of grief. We take a brief look at this unusual area of philatelic and postal history. Join Coins, Stamps & Collectibles for a look…
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The British Empire Study Group invites you them for an exploration of the major postal events from what was to become the separate colonies of Van Diemen’s Land, New Zealand, Port Philip District and the Moreton Bay District. Explorers, Governors, Convicts, Soldiers, Letters written by Women, Pioneers, Scoundrels and Missionaries!…
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The British Empire Study Group presents, Prisoners of the Boer War on St Helena and Free Masonry with Robin Woodruff.
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Dr. Charles J. DiComo, President of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County and the Empire State Postal History Society shares a brief story entitled “The S.S. Tahiti: Her History, the Sinking, and a “Salvaged” Cover. This Ocean Liner, built in 1904 by Alexander Stephens & Sons, was operated by the…
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StampManage discusses the various features in StampManage of interest to topical stamp collectors.
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Going Postal is a journey through time looking through the lens of stamp collecting and postage history. Your host is Henry Lukas, the Education Director at the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History.
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This episode involves a volcano, solar eclipse, a shark attack, rockets, and maybe a stamp or two. Learn about Tonga‘s Tin Can Mail on the island of Niuafo’ou on this episode of #philately.
View More Exploring Stamps: #Philately – Tin Can Mail (Part 1)Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian country, and also an archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. An Austronesian-speaking group linked to what archaeologists call the Lapita cultural complex reached and inhabited Tonga sometime between 1500 and 1000 BC. Scholars still debate exactly when Tonga…
View More TongaNiuafoʻou (meaning many new coconuts) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. Other names for the island are Good Hope island and Tin Can island. It got the name “tin can” from its unusual method for sending and receiving mail from abroad. Because it has no wharf or…
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