USPS art director Antonio Alcala designed the stamp using an original graphic image created by artist Noah MacMillan.

Aripex will include a bourse (sales area) with 47 tables. The United States Postal Service will have a booth at the show.

The Smithsonian philatelic achievement award was established in 2002 to honor and celebrate living individuals for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of philately.

The stamp was precanceled locally in four cities: Atlanta, Ga.; Baltimore, Md.; Memphis, Tenn., and New Haven, Conn.

Participants in the workshop receive reference guides, a bibliography and a digital book on photo postcards.

Also this week, uncovering an error about the beginning of M-Bag mailing rates, and a Linn’s reader seeks additional information about a label inscribed “Freeland Islands.”

Both of these new tagging-omitted errors will be listed in the 2024 Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers.

There will be two prizes given to the winners: one for the best philatelic line and one for the best nonphilatelic line.

The show will take place Aug. 14-17, 2025, at the Schaumburg Convention Center.

The box set is noted but not listed or valued in the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers.

For the second time in two months, a new plate number for an existing United States coil stamp has been discovered.

The Spring 2022 issue of Seal News, the journal of the Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society, included a two-page article on this overprint.

This year’s seminar will be presented both virtually and in person.

Art director Antonio Alcala designed the stamp using an illustration from artist Noah MacMillan.

Determining what went wrong and how the Postal Service dealt with it is meat and potatoes for collectors who specialize in auxiliary markings.

Colopex originally was scheduled to take place June 9-10 in Columbus, Ohio.

The show will feature up to 100 exhibit frames, over 50 dealers and a youth area.

The state line between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was left out on the map on the back of the pane.

Also this week, a review of a new book about the first U.S. postal card issued in 1873, and taking a closer look at a 1964 set of eight German stamps honoring resistance heroes during World War II.

Numerous reports of United States Holiday Elves forever stamps with shifted die cuts were brought to the attention of Linn’s editors in late December 2022.