Mr. Ripper was a 50-year-old freelance artist when he was tapped for his first U.S. postage stamp assignment in 1980: a set of four 15¢ stamps celebrating coral reefs.

The U.S. Postal Service said that inaccurate information published in the USPS Postal Bulletin will be corrected.

The design of each stamp is a stylized illustration depicting one of four dog breeds serving today in the U.S. armed forces: the German shepherd, the Labrador retriever, the Belgian Malinois and the Dutch shepherd.

Exhibiting your stamps and covers can open up new worlds of interest, challenge and accomplishment.

Americover will present approximately 144 frames of exhibits, which will be judged by a team of five American Philatelic Society accredited judges.

The contest featured the 33¢ Personal Computers stamp from the Celebrate the Century pane of 15 highlighting the 1980s.

The United States Woodstock forever stamp will have its first-day ceremony at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The American Philatelic Society will hold its national convention Aug. 1-4. The show is in partnership with the American Topical Association.

The two popular national stamp shows will take place in the same venue, the CHI Health Center Omaha Convention Center and Arena in Nebraska.

The stamp is a good buy in very fine grade at 80 percent to 90 percent of catalog values.

The stamp designs together create a quadripartition, a single panoramic scene divided into four individual stamps.

Error pairs with gutter between resulted from paper folds or, more unusually, a mismatch between the printed sheets and the mechanism that slices them apart into panes.

Philatelic expertizers make their evaluations as objectively as they can, but expertizing is as much an art as a science.

The July 25 first-day ceremony for the United States State and County Fairs stamp set is taking place at the North Dakota State Fair, which charges a general admission fee of $10.

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

The successful 1969 moon landing is commemorated with two stamps picturing the lunar sphere and the astronauts who took that giant leap.

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

In 1875, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced official reproductions of the first general issue postage stamps.

The Civil War, a Postal System Divided, Postal Exhibition and Symposium is a one-time World Series of Philately show.

The set of four United States Tyrannosaurus Rex forever stamps will have its first-day ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.