Tim Hodge has collected stamps since childhood and recently joined the team of Scott editors.

The question is timely as the great majority of early generations of U.S. collectors paid little attention to U.S. issues past the airmail listings.

In any case, Hotchner was not convinced that C23c was a real error. But thanks to Linn’s reader James Patterson, his opinion has shifted.

The American Philatelic Society will present Stampshow 2017, the nation’s largest annual postage stamp show and exhibition, Aug. 3-6 in the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. Third St., Richmond, Virginia.

In theory, you could buy the booklet pane of 20 and strip the other 10 stamps off the pane leaving yourself with a block of 10. You should consider it.

The National Duck Stamp Collectors Society has created a pane of 12 "society stamps" with designs by two successful young wildlife artists.

Panes of the rare stamp variety left untouched at Stamp Fulfillment Services were eventually distributed after a verification process was completed.

During Ellis Island's years of operation as the initial port of contact with U.S. officialdom, from 1892 to 1954, millions of immigrants landed there.

Also this week, we reflect on the works of Andrew Wyeth who is featured on an upcoming set of U.S. stamps.

The semipostal stamp program administered by the USPS has moved in fits and starts, waiting for the U.S. Congress to select the agencies.

A stamp collector reports buying a pane of six of the upright variety of the $2 Jenny Invert stamp in a post office in Marcy, N.Y.

Entries for the annual contest must be submitted by Aug. 15 to be eligible for consideration as the design for the 2018 federal duck stamp.

The American Philatelic Society's specialty group for philatelic writers has named four prominent writers to its hall of fame for 2017.

Your challenge: caption the stamp on the far left of the sheet showing two of the guys that were doing the work to move the boat through the ice.

A new set of 10 Disney forever stamps featuring villains from animated films will be issued in a pane of 20 July 15 in Anaheim, Calif.

A ticket is required to attend the July 26 first-day ceremony for the Sharks stamps. The Postal Service is offering a limited number of free tickets.

A new book, Aspects of American Postal History, gathers together a select group of authors, dubbed the “Sweet 16” by La Posta editor Peter Martin.

The United Nations apparently asked the U.S. Postal Service to use the design on these cards as a means of fund-raising for UNICEF.

If there were a prize for the best imitation of a U.S. stamp, a contender would be the example on the 1908 cover from the Royal Typewriter Co. in New York.

A new set of United States stamps pays tribute to one of America’s most highly regarded 20th-century artists, Andrew Wyeth.