On March 27, the board of the American Philatelic Society met virtually to give an update on the organization. In attendance were approximately 60 people, in addition to the APS board and staff.

The show will be held May 23-25 at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds Event Center in Aurora, Colo.

After the ceremony guests lined up to get autographs from all of the participants. There was a separate table for retail sales of the stamps and covers.

The pane of 15 includes watercolor paintings featuring scenes of five battlefields appearing beside more recent photographs of the historic sites.

The two additional hotels are located close to restaurants and attractions in the greater Boston suburbs.

A bourse (sales area) of about 25 dealers will offer stamps, covers and postal history from the United States and worldwide, and the show will feature more than 150 frames of competitive exhibits.

The Battlefields of the American Revolution proof set is similar to a set of proof panes offered to collectors in 2013 in conjunction with the Jenny Invert pane of six $2 stamps.

Okpex will feature a bourse (sales area) of up to 15 dealers, and the United States Postal Service will have a booth at the show.

For new collectors of all ages, the show will have a table with a Wilkinsburg Stamp Club member to assist novices with the basics of stamp collecting.

Mystic’s contest asks readers to pick the greatest United States stamps using a bracket format similar to the one used for March Madness.

Following the 1986 space shuttle disaster, there was considerable pressure on the United States Postal Service to issue a stamp in honor of the crew.

Eight official show hotels are available at room rates from $229 to $333 per night during Tuesday, May 19 through Monday, June 1, 2026.

Also this week, a review of stamp album pages hosted on the American Philatelic Society’s website, and an interesting overprint error on two Lesotho postage due stamps issued in 1966.

Despite their appearance, savings stamps are invalid for postage, according to Postal Service regulations regarding the payment of postal fees.

With two stamp designs and a plate number interval at an odd number of 27, it’s to be expected that a stamp design will repeat.

Betty White was a pioneer of early television, which mostly included a vast number of appearances in sitcoms, sketch comedy and game shows.

Relatively recent forever stamps with se-tenant (side-by-side) designs remain one of the hottest segments of the U.S. stamp market.

Existing United States Post Office Department regulations did not allow for such an honor for MacArthur in his own country because U.S. stamps picturing living people were not to be issued.

The San Diego Stamp Show opened Feb. 21 with a first-day ceremony unveiling the two new United States American Vistas presorted standard coil stamps.

The programs take place on four Tuesdays during the months of March and April and are free and open to the public.