I'm looking for information about covers illustrated by F. S. Giles of Tulsa, Oklahoma. My only example of his work is below and I know of only one...
@Molokai or others who collect the 1870-1888 definitive series I have this stamp on cover and the postmark, while clear, has no year date. It seems...
To start, here are two non-philatelic Christmas cards addressed to the Rosebooms from my garage sale collection, the first postmarked December 23,...
I purchased these two stamps from an APS sales circuit. The first is Belgian Congo Sc. 26, the 5 francs lake and black with a CDC from Boma, January...
In one of the past threads there was discussion of France's on-going Marianne definitive series. Linns Stamp News of December 17th, 2018, has an...
Like so many others in the U.S., I started collecting with commemorative issues. My U.S. collection is not strong nor does it contain any rarities,...
Here is a color variety for Ecuador, Sc. 67, the 1896 20c carmine stamp commemorating the success of the Liberal Party recently acquired. I've...
Sad news for those of us who use or have used Washington Press products and supplies. My first album and binder was White Ace commemoratives. I...
My mail of yesterday included a 2018 Christmas catalog of collectors' products offered by the U.S. Postal Service. I buy stamps online from the...
I went to a philatelic event in Oklahoma City yesterday. It was sponsored by the metro area stamp club and was billed as "a stamp collector's garage...
I have an Ecuador collection that I started back in the 1980s. One of the things I noticed is that the Ecuador postal service was fond of overprints...
It is time to start a bullseye cancel thread. Most all collectors have some of these so it should be easy to post a few. Slogan and object cancels...
The USPS will issue a "frozen treats" 1st class mail forever series on June 20th, 2018. They are scratch and sniff stamps. There already is a lot...
Molokai: This is actually a follow-up to your post showing the interesting Fox?Kelleher cover in the Stamp Dealers thread. I didn't want to hijack...
During the early 2000s my cover collecting passion was airmail covers with different or unusual borders. When I began this collection I thought it...
This is a thread that most collectors can post to. Who doesn't acquire a stamp show cover from time to time. I have a few contemporary ones, but...
Savings stamps used as postage are not rare. They may be found from time to time on eBay on cover for under $10. This cover with savings stamps...
As I mentioned in the first post of my Ships on U.S.Stamps Collection, the early 1990s was a transition period in my collecting as I stopped...
This thread might be better placed in the U.S. or World forums, but placement here allows for inclusion of cinderellas from the U.S. and other...
As a companion thread to Aircraft on Stamps, I will post a few pages from my Aircraft on Covers collection. Here is a cover bearing the likeness of...
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