South Dakota artist Adam Grimm’s oil painting of male and female spectacled eiders with a mountain scene in the background is featured on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2025 federal duck stamp.

Klinefelter’s painting of a wood duck drake and a hen will be featured on the society’s 2025 cinderella (stamplike label) stamp.

The collector who discovered the error pane reported that it had been returned by another customer as defective.

The dedicating official for the ceremony was Doug Tulino, who currently serves as the Postal Service’s acting postmaster general and chief executive officer.

Also this week, a tip to look for a certain 2¢ George Washington stamp from the First Bureau Issue, and a $5 mixture of 300 U.S. stamps leaves our anonymous reviewer very satisfied.

This issue has been heavily counterfeited, and panes offered at or below postage value are almost certainly counterfeits.

There are moments when philately becomes more than stamps and covers — it becomes a shared celebration among collectors, postal professionals and friends.

Stamp dealer Jerry Birdsall of Northland International Trading in Caldwell, N.J., alerted Linn’s Stamp News to the new error.

A total of six stamp issues from 2022 to 2024 are affected.

For collectors seeking a way to honor their fathers — or for fathers looking to pass on their love of stamps — there are countless ways to make this Father’s Day meaningful through philately.

In 1899 the U.S. administration issued a special delivery stamp for Cuba (Scott E1) by overprinting the U.S. 10¢ blue Running Messenger special delivery stamp (E5).

Pick a subject, any subject, and you will find it on an advertising cover and/or on the back of a United States penny postal card from the late 1870s to the 1950s.

Having these numbers handy will allow you to easily locate these stamps in the Scott catalogs and learn about their production and values.

Award selections were based on voting by the La Posta editorial staff and subscribers of La Posta.

The show is free to attend and will feature more than 100 dealers, society meetings, world-class exhibits, USPS first-day ceremonies, and more.

The design of the stamp was unveiled May 8 in the East Room of the White House during a ceremony hosted by first lady Melania Trump.

Okpex will feature a bourse (sales area) of 10 dealers, a youth table with buckets of free stamps and more than 110 frames of competitive exhibits.

Also this week, a tip to acquire the United States 2016 Classics Forever stamps issued in a pane of six, and a detailed review of a mixture of 37 stamps from 20 different stamp-issuing entities.

The show will feature a bourse (sales area) of 60 dealers, including representatives from the United States Postal Service and the United Nations Postal Administration.

While the album space for the 16¢ Curtiss Jenny stamp might be filled in most collections, many collectors are always looking for a better example to upgrade their collection.