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.

The show bourse (sales area) will feature 11 dealers from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.

According to the Postal Service, the stamp artwork is an oil painting of Gaines based on a photograph taken by Raoul Benavides in 2001.

The board of directors re-elected Lloyd de Vries as president, Ralph Nafziger as executive vice president, Jim Hogg as first vice president, Mark Gereb as recording secretary and Mark Thompson as treasurer.

Christmas greetings don’t usually stray into the subjects of international relations or politics.

A Christmas card with a non-Christmas handstamped message is something that might not have Miss Manners’ approval.

The inclusion of conventional pets on Love stamps shows a deviation from the common images, such as hearts and flowers, that the Postal Service uses in the popular Love series.

The United States claimed Baker Island in 1857. It is administered today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Also this week, a market tip for the most often misidentified stamp in U.S. classics collecting, and sifting through a 49-stamp sample from a mixture of 209 worldwide stamps.

Alfred F. Lichtenstein (1876-1947) was widely considered one of the greatest American philatelists of the first half of the 20th century.

The stamps were available at all Colombian consulates, trade missions and agencies maintained by SCADTA.

Few special flight covers connect directly to Christmas. An exception is a Dec. 25, 1929, cover canceled in Chicago.

Five stamps depicting noteworthy railroad stations are set to be issued March 9 in Cincinnati, the home of Union Station, which is shown on one of the stamps.

The new 2023 Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Counterfeits is the essential reference work for collectors of United States counterfeit stamp issues.

Because it was the December cartoon caption contest, quite a few entries mentioned Christmas.

Scott English, executive director of the APS, made the announcement Jan. 6 on the APS website.

The $9.65 stamp satisfies the new flat rate for standard Priority Mail envelopes, and the $28.75 stamp pays the corresponding Priority Mail Express rate.