22 of Ted Talks Stamps‘ favorite beautiful postage stamps produced by Canada Post. Canada has produced many beautiful postage stamps that will enhance any stamp collection. This is by no means a definitive list, but is a nice representation of the artistic quality going into their postage stamps.
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HRT3 takes a brief overview of Popeye The Sailor Man on US stamp covers, and a brief history of the characters in the comic strip.
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Two or more stamps from different stamp issues used together on a cover to pay postage can be defined as a ‘Mixed Franking‘.
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A visit with retired American Topical Association Executive Director, Vera Felts
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Using Covers (envelopes with stamps and postmarks on them), Bob Collects Stamps tells the story of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12) and it’s place in the Apollo Space Program.
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Bill Bergstrom has been working as an auction lot describer for the better part of four decades, describing over 500,000 lots. Join us as we talk to him about his start with Jacques Schiff, the discovery of the CIA Invert Sheet, and insights behind how different auction houses prepare their…
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Episode 23 – Bill Bergstrom and Behind Auction House Lotting
Ken Lawrence has been a philatelic writer and researcher for more than 35 years, an antebellum and Civil War era historian for 50, and a stamp and cover collector for more than 65 years. Among the challenges faced by the United States Post Office Department during the Classic Era was…
View More Postal History Symposium 2020: Mails of Navassa Island – The Original Overseas United States Possession
North Toronto Stamp Club member John Sharp and his wife took a cruise to Antarctica and visited some of the world’s southernmost post offices. In this presentation, John shares his impressions of this unique part of our globe.
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Fred Gregory, a stamp collector from boyhood days, has focused his philatelic interest on the stamps and postal history of 19th century Hawaii. In the late 1990s, he created Post Office in Paradise, Mail & Postage Stamps of Nineteenth Century Hawaii. He has authored numerous articles on Hawaii stamps and…
View More Postal History Symposium 2020: Government Post in Hawaii: Creation and Reform (1849 – 1859)The study of bats is known as Chiropterology. Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera. With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more manoeuvrable than birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane…
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