The stamp in very fine grade without faults is a good buy at 80 percent up to full catalog value.

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

What purpose did the unusual purple handstamp on the cover serve?

The show will include a bourse (sales area) of 34 dealer booths along with up to 150 exhibit frames.

The sender running out of 1¢ stamps is only one of the possibilities for why four $1 Patrick Henry stamps were used to pay the postage.

The stamp is the product of a lobbying campaign by bulk mailers who convinced postal executives that the new stamp could boost first-class mail volume.

The 5¢ Sam Houston stamp was not issued until Jan. 19, 1964.

The show marks the 136th anniversary of the Chicago Philatelic Society.

Also this week, an unusual handstamp on an unmailable United States 1922 cover provides a glimpse into the inner workings of the Dead Letter Office and the Division of Dead Letters, and taking a closer look at a small batch of stamps from Montenegro that picture that country’s first and only king.

The cover was sent by Harriet Taylor Upton (1853-1945), a political activist and author who devoted most of her efforts to the struggle for women’s right to vote.

More 2023 U.S. stamp designs will be revealed in the coming weeks and months.

Local newspapers covered the event both before and after, which gave even more positive publicity for stamp collecting.

Scott Murphy, president of Professional Stamp Experts, alerted Linn’s Stamp News about the new errors in separate emails sent Sept. 20 and Sept. 27.

The faux cancellation is dated 1951, and the mystery is deepened by the text “Read this when you’re alone!” in the upper left.

Also this week, a review of three blog sites of interest to stamp collectors, and a favorable review of a sample from a $2 mixture of worldwide stamps.

Postal savings depositories were established by an act of Congress approved June 25, 1910.

The tours began in 1952, seven years after the United Nations formed in 1945.

Though not a mega-star, she was a durable and talented presence in a wholesome sort of way for many years.

Admission to the lecture is free, but online registration is required.

At the end of the war, 7.6 million U.S. servicemen and women were still stationed abroad and were being brought back to the United States to be demobilized.