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Pearl Harbor Day a benchmark date, China error sells for $149,500: Week's Most Read

By Joe O'Donnell
It’s time to catch up on the week that was in stamp-collecting insights and news.
Linn's Stamp News is looking back at its five most-read stories of the week.
Click the links to read the stories. Here they are, in reverse order:
5. Canada Post scores with NHL great goalies: Just days before the start of the NHL season, a new issue that celebrates six goaltending greats was unveiled.
4. Ajman-to-Kuwait cover gets the respect it deserves: Despite past prejudices against stamps issued by sheikdoms that are now federated as the United Arab Emirates, postal history dealer Rob Haeseler sold the cover in 2014 for $1,000 to an experienced collector in the UAE.
3. Block of three 1845 New York postmaster’s provisional stamps from Miller collection recovered: The stamps were once part of a larger block of 10 that was stolen from the famous Benjamin K. Miller collection in 1977
2. China inverted surcharge sells for $149,500 in Cherrystone sale: Inverted centers are perhaps the most eye-catching and desirable kinds of stamp errors.
1. International airmail covers recall the ‘Day of Infamy’: For airmail and postal history hobbyists, Pearl Harbor Day has become a benchmark date.
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