Werner, That's an interesting slice of history. I'll have to go back through my DDR stamps and see if I can sort the originals from the reprints....
Hi Richard, Here's an after thought about release information about first day cities and dates. The AFDCS specializes in FDC's perhaps they can be...
Hi Richard, Outside of the Scott Catalog's first day city/cities designation and date listing there is no other easy way to find out that...
Hi Richard, Savings stamps is a whole other niche collectible. I remember as a kid watching my folks get their stamps with their receipt, the books...
Hi Arthur, I think one of the most salient points I have learned in philately is "rare today, rare tomorrow". Stamp collecting is not about the...
Hi Arthur, Let me give you a quote from a stamp site. "Often the best you can do with postage is to use it for mail. Unfortunately, many collections...
Hi Richard, That's quite a price for such a piece. The well-heeled make a game of such items at auction many times playing out some kind of a...
Hi Richard, I have seen misspellings of Ellicottville well into the late 19th century. That will not narrow down any search of a time frame for...
Hi Arthur, From your own picture posting it states that most all specimens of the "limonka" stamp are used. A stamp of the value you mention almost...
Hi Arthur, I don't collect Russia or the USSR so what someone would expect to pay for these stamps I haven't the slightest idea. The price list...
Hi Arthur, I believe those stamps are from 1924, not 1925. This information I got from an online catalog....
Hi Molokai, I think you have nailed the best avenue for a list of Nassau Street stamp dealers. After 1906 when the Bell System adopted the Yellow...
Hi Molokai, In 1822 the city directory began to be circulated in different cities and counties in this country as well as others. The names of...
Don, This may only be tangentially related to stamps but this site shows photographs of New York City circa 1940 and has many of the buildings on...
Thank-you Alessandro for the transcript in as far as it was readable and the interesting history you were able to draw out of the letter.
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