There are a couple of new pages now online in my American Indian stamp exhibit. The first features a cover carried aboard the first northbound flight on CAM 8, while the second is a 1927 registered cover mailed within Colorado.
I hope to share more of these covers when I have time. The pages are fun to write up, but the text does require a couple of drafts before it’s posted.
I recently married my beautiful bride, Sarah, and with our official honeymoon over we’re getting settled in and getting back to work. That hasn’t left much time for stamps, but I did pick up some older landscape postcards during our travels that I’ll try to share with you this weekend.
I want to offer many thanks to Shirley C. for a very generous donation to help keep Philosateleia online and ad-free. Shirley’s the latest collector to offer financial support the work we’re doing here, and I’m deeply grateful for the assistance.
Summer officially lasts for another two weeks, but already there’s a hint of coolness in the air when I step out the door in the morning.
To help you get ready for the cold months ahead when you’re stuck indoors, the Fall 2010 Supplement (158 KB, 3 files, 7 pages) for The Philosateleian U.S. Stamp Album is now available. This is a small update, but it includes spaces for the U.S. stamps issued up to this point in the year.
There’s one more update left this year. 2011 marks the 5-year anniversary of the launch of The Philosateleian, so we’ll try to come up with something exciting to mark that milestone.
If you like the album pages, please don’t forget to show your support for the project. Happy collecting!
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the 14¢ American Indian stamp. It’s mentioned in the “About the author” sidebar on this blog, there’s an entire archive section dedicated to it, and an image of the stamp is, of course, used in the header of the website.
It is, therefore, with great excitement that I can finally announce the launch of 14 Cents: The American Indian Stamp.
This new section of Philosateleia will give you a brief intro to the stamp, show you examples from the United States, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Marshall Islands, and explore extra items that look like the stamp or are related to it.
The guide has been in the works for a long time, and by no means is it a finished product. Over time, I plan to add images of various covers and other material in my collection.
I welcome your comments and suggestions, and I hope you enjoy 14 Cents: The American Indian Stamp.
If you’re looking for some kiloware to sort during the cold winter months, a company in Finland can help you out.
That’s assuming, of course, that you have somewhere to store over 27 tons of covers.
The single lot is being offered in an October 2 auction. It contains 25,000 kilograms (approximately 55,000 pounds) of covers packed in more than a thousand boxes. All of the covers were addressed to a company based in Finland.
The auctioneer has not yet released an estimate of the final sale price.
Many stamp collectors probably dream of having a virtually unlimited stash of material to go through, but this volume of covers boggles the mind. There’s little doubt it would be fun to sort through, but one has to wonder how many collectors even have a place to store so much material (or a family willing to put up with it).
Would you buy this lot if you could afford it and had room to store the covers? Or do you think it would turn into a nightmare for a collector bold enough to tackle it all alone?