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• Graf Zeppelin U.S. Postage Stamps

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 497
  The Graf Zeppelin was the greatest of the lighter-than-aircraft of the twenties and thirties.   This dirigible first flew in September 1928, and wasted little time in setting records.  One month later, the Graf Zeppelin made the first trans-Atlantic flight to carry paying passengers from Europe to the United ...
  18 hours ago

• Going Postal

  
  orbis quintus — Authority: 125
  Pick 10 album covers. Any 10 album covers . You can’t argue with any of the five on the lower row. (I always had a fondness for Presence, but admittedly that’s contrarian.) Top rung: I can think of four better, more iconic Floyd covers than the one they chose, although it is a well-designed image.  Blur is fine. ...
  1 week ago

• Wartime Postage Stamps, 1940-1943

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 497
  The “propaganda style” is a hip artistic trope common today, used everywhere cool from Battlestar Galactica to Obama (and, really, most everything coming out of Obey Giant or Brute! ), and most people immediately connect the style fascism, appearing in Soviet and Spanish and Nazi imagery from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The new Cafe (racer) Society — Authority: 446
  The stamp collector. Via: Sideblog
  2 weeks ago

• One of the Rarest Stamps in the World, the Mauritius Orange-red One Penny, to be Sold

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  One of the 12 stamps of Mauritius which are the rarest in the world will be sold for €2 million (93.5 million Mauritian Rupees). Official sources at the Mauritius Post Office indicate that one precious example, the orange-red one penny belongs to a Rumanian collector Ion Ivan, from the town of Braila in Rumania. ...
  3 weeks ago

• India Post Contest - "Gandhiji writes a Postcard"

  
  Moksh Juneja — Authority: 99
  A contest being conducted by the Indian Post . All details here . This will surely inculcate a habit of writing letters. Dont to get to excited with the proposition of the contest cause this meant only for Children. Wish Indian Post could come up with more innovative ideas on contests which are more global in ...
  3 weeks ago

• All About Collectible Postage Stamps

  
  Vintage Antique Collectible — Authority: 500
  The art of collecting collectible postage stamps is a hobby that has become popular with several millions of Americans as well as people all throughout the world, including young and old alike. Many people that are just beginning with collectible postage stamps enjoy the thrill and the challenge that comes with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chandra Nursey registered letter on Ebay Sell

  
  Proud to be a Sikkimese — Authority: 124
  I just came across an excellent registered envelope send from Chandra Nursery, Rhenock to England....watch this letter it was send in 1938!! Chandra Nursery was famous for its floral business across the globe. The 1930s and 1940s were the peak period of their business.
  3 weeks ago

• This Year’s Holiday Stamps

  
  Collectors Quest — Authority: 497
  Today and through the weekend, stamp collectors will congregate in New York City for the 60th annual  Fall 2009 Postage Stamp Mega Event .  Sixty stamp dealers an innumerable philatelists with meet at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan to trade their wares, see what’s new, and take in the sights and sounds of New ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stamp Collecting – The Ultimate Geek Hobby

  
  Madang - Ples Bilong Mi — Authority: 127
  I mean no disrespect to rock hounds, model train enthusiasts, trekies, comic book collectors and such ilk by trashing their hobbies. However, there are some hobbies that are clearly more geeky than others. A lot depends on attitude. A person whose hobby is, for example, crafting fine rocking chairs from exotic woods ...
  4 weeks ago

• The first revenue stamp of Sikkim (1917)

  
  Proud to be a Sikkimese — Authority: 124
  The first revenue stamp of Sikkim (1917)
  7 weeks ago

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