Wishing the StampExchange gang Happy Holidays! I hope 2021 is the year you find a 596....
I don’t know if I’ve shown these before…my home office is covered with stacks of NS material. I’ve decided to include ads for the dealers as I find...
Noted, no extra funds for fancy stationary. The good ones made a decent living; few got rich. Herst would be one of those, I suppose. Still, he 'got...
About as Plain Jane as a cover gets - but I had neither a General nor the address - 100 Nassau Street. Proprietor was L.Tankel and he was there for...
Speaking of Mr. Ohlman...a nice, clean cover. He had a lucky room number. Most of the 116 NS returns do not show a room. Addressed to a well-known...
It must have sold well. Max Ohlman in an ad indicates he has sold 1300 of them! A couple on eBay, I might pick one up as philatelic ephemera.
Lakeland Stamp Company? For a short time in the early 1950s, Herman Herst ran a full-page advertisement in the SPA Journal. In one ad (March, 1950)...
Anyone own a PHILATECTOR back in the day? NO, you didn't buy them at the adult toy store.:dead: "The PHILATECTOR is the only instrument of its kind...
Another 'furin' cover but George Herzog has been hard to find for me. I am a bit partial to Uruguay, having visited in the late 1970s and having been...
Yet another address for the peripatetic J.M.Bartels! [ATTACH]
Here is where Herman Herst lived. 229 West 70th Street. His mother, Lillian, lived a few blocks away.
Very attractive NS cover!!
Almost all countries have at least a few great rarities which preclude purchase by all but the very wealthy. Also, numerous varieties of color,...
Nowherelands – An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840-1975 by Bjorn Berge This nice little book came to me in a small mixed lot of philatelic...
DON is probably correct about a single country... Perhaps countries where your ancestors originated? Countries you've visited - or would like to...
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