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• Polar Mail

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Many children in the United States write letters addressed to Santa Claus at the North Pole each year. But how many of you have written to scientists living at the South Pole? On December 14th, 1911 the South Pole was discovered by Captain Roald Amundsen of Norway and his team of Antarctic explorers. For ...
  4 days ago

• Stamp collecting enjoys surge in popularity

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Stamp collecting is enjoying an unlikely surge in popularity, with dealers reporting a sharp increase in sales.
  1 week ago

• Stamps and Stories

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 128
  I don’t usually cross paths with philately while browsing the thrift shops, but last weekend I was luckier than usual.  We were visiting relatives over Thanksgiving weekend – an excellent time to hit far-off shops in hopes of seeing something new – and I found a couple books on stamps, the first two editions of ...
  1 week ago

• A postage stamp showed Sikkim as an Independent Country.

  
  Proud to be a Sikkimese — Authority: 130
  This postage stamp from the country of Bhutan issued in late 70s is probably the only postage stamps in the world of philately that showed Sikkim as an Independent Country. You can closely see an Independent Sikkim, below it India while East Pakistan now Bangladesh just beneath it. Bhutan is right to Sikkim in white ...
  1 week ago

• Nostalgia Sunday – JNF-KKL stamp club

  
  ISRAELITY — Authority: 429
  About a week and a half ago, an event took place at the Jewish National Fund House in Tel Aviv that might be termed historic: the revival of the JNF-KKL stamp collectors club. Most people know that the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet (JNF-KKL) raises funds using the trusty old Blue Box method of [...]
  2 weeks ago

• New Israeli Educational Stamps Posted Online

  
  Good News from Israel — Authority: 111
  Hi Everyone! I scanned and posted on my website the new Israeli stamps that were issued in November 2009. I included the stamp itself, the first day cover, and an English and a Hebrew flyer about the stamp. - Maritime Archeology in Israel - Lighthouses in Israel - The Yiddish Theatre in Lasi, Romania (1876) ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Boy Scout Centennial Stamp

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 128
  The first new postage stamp for the 2010 year was recently revealed.   To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, the USPS will issue the Celebrate Scouting stamp at the centennial Boy Scouts Jamboree, to be held next July at Fort AP Hill, Virginia.   The stamp was designed by Mill ...
  3 weeks ago

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