The cover bears a fake 2010 44¢ Love in combination with three other genuine stamps: two 2016 10¢ Red Pears coil stamps and a 2016 5¢ Pinot Noir Grapes coil stamp.

The bronze Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French shown on the stamp stands in the National Historical Park in Concord, Mass.

The companies selected for inclusion in the publication were chosen by the Linn’s team at Amos Media Co.

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

Some junk mail can be quite attractive and therefore quite collectible.

Heather Moulder of Woodbury, Tenn., took inspiration from vintage bluegrass concert posters for her illustration for the stamp.

Yosemite National Park in California will host the May 15 first-day ceremony for the pane of 16 stamps featuring pictures taken by renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams (1902-84).

The March Party 2024 show theme is hummingbirds, a nod to the United States Postal Service’s first-day-of-issue ceremony for the Garden Delights stamps featuring hummingbirds.

Also this week, the story behind the mysterious 1938 Contract Air Mail 35 flight covers sent to Scottsbluff, Neb., and a tip to look for the 1932-40 set of postage stamps issued by Inini.

Convening societies at Nojex 2024 include the United States Stamp Society, New Jersey Postal History Society and the Collectors Club.

Such plate numbers are quite scarce because most miscut booklets show only a small portion of a plate number — often less than 50 percent.

USPS art director and designer Antonio Alcala used existing sepia photographs of the six men and four women portrayed on the stamps.

The polar salon will feature polar artifacts, noncompetitive polar philatelic material, displays, and approximately 200 frames of exhibits related to polar philately.

Also this week, a pair of unusual on-cover uses of the U.S. 1972 2¢ Cape Hatteras stamps issued in a se-tenant block of four, and a word search puzzle devoted to stamps printed on uncommon materials such as toilet paper.

The United States 1890 2¢ George Washington stamp was originally listed as a shade variety of Scott 220 before being assigned its own major-number listing.

Automatic distribution of commemorative stamps to post offices seemed to have resumed with the Year of the Dragon stamp issued Jan. 25.

Stamps from plate B111 rolls have a compact (narrow) dark “2023” year date. Those from B222 rolls have a wider light “2023” year date showing noticeable space between the four digits.

Nathan Hale was the only volunteer when Gen. George Washington asked for someone to take on an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City to report on British troop movements.

Banknote Corporation of America printed a total of 18 million nondenominated (68¢) John Wooden stamps that were finished into panes of 20 for sale at post offices and other authorized philatelic outlets.

More than 300 people packed into the gym area of the Constance Baker Motley Recreation Center in New York City.