Combining Stamps With History
December 23rd, 2009 admin
Stamp collector and retired English and journalism teacher Betty Coxson, shown here, is looking to combine her love of stamps with one of her favorite stories from history class according to a story that appears on the KIMT.com website . Betty hopes to get John Peter Zenger –a newspaperman in pre-revolutionary New York on a stamp. Zenger printed articles calling the king-appointed governor corrupt and was thrown in jail, but lawyer Andrew Hamilton came to …
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A broad variety of battleship documentary and proprietary stamps as well as the dollar values from the 1898 tax period featured on John Langlois’ 1898 Revenues blog. According to John, a U.S. citizen, who lives and works in Africa, the stamps were issued by the U.S. government to pay taxes that supported the Spanish-American War . John says...
A tip of the tongs to Round-Up reader Richard Cannata of New York who sends along a listing on eBay about a 117-year-old mystery stamp that is being hailed as “The King Arthur” of stamps because “supposedly all of the experts have heard of the legend, but no one has ever proven it, until now.” Going for the “Buy It Now”...
Angie Arcierno asks on Troy, New York’s The Record website, “Have you ever wondered what stories a mailbag could tell?” She pens, “Mailbags were made by the mail equipment division at the U.S. Postal Service. This division was in charge of issuing the mailbags, mail locks and keys, the making of the bags, and any repairs...
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On Tuesday 11th May, right in the middle of the main London 2010: Festival of Stamps activities, we will welcome Paul Eimers of stamp printers Joh Enschedé to the BPMA. Joh Enschedé have printed many British stamps over the years, but their latest work for Royal Mail is The King’s Stamps miniature sheet, to be released on 8th May to mark the...
A man and his two sisters recreate the moment they fled as child war evacuees as a stamp collection marking the Blitz is launched. John Dawson, Barbara Southard and Rosemary Brett were photographed in 1941 huddling together at London’s King’s Cross station before being put on a train. The children, each wearing an identity tag, had...
From the printed page to the envelope, six great Australian writers have been honoured as legends in a special stamp series to celebrate Australia Day. The list includes four multiple Miles Franklin Award winners – Peter Carey, who wrote True History of the Kelly Gang; Thomas Keneally, who authored Schindler’s Ark; David Malouf, who...
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