The show will host celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Milwaukee Philatelic Society and the 75th anniversary of the American Topical Association.

Perhaps the illustrations on these covers were inspired by the use of images of the American flag on Civil War Union patriotic covers.

The stamps feature photographs of a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle.

The show bourse (sales area) will feature dealers from across the western United States, and the U.S. Postal Service will host a table with new issues and collectibles for sale.

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

Also this week, recounting a 1939 trans-Pacific cover carried by a 100-year-old outrigger canoe, and a crossword puzzle focused on translating philatelic Spanish into English.

All U.S. newspaper stamps are large and colorful. The designs of newspaper stamps issued from 1875 on featured allegorical or mythological figures.

A meetup is an informal gathering of postcard-writing enthusiasts who use the Postcrossing.com website. Socializing and signing postcards are the basics of the event.

On May 20, the United States Postal Service announced issue dates and first-day ceremony locations for 11 issues in its 2024 stamp program.

Over the years, the kingdom has been commemorated in various ways, and perhaps the stamps were one of them.

Prominent in the pictures on the new nondenominated (68¢) Carnival Nights forever stamps are various carnival rides, some of which rotate at high speeds to give riders a thrill.

Today’s California was part of Mexico as late as the start of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.

Also this week, a study of two scarce United States additional-ounce uses from 1981, and a sample from a worldwide mixture serves up numerous nice stamps.

Ballots must be received by ASDA executive director Dana Guyer no later than June 30.

The American Philatelic Society announced in May that it is replacing its previous online learning platform C3a.

Linn’s readers were not so sure the picture comported with reality. Several had thoughts about the feet that filled the glass slippers and the princely shoes.

The 2023 show was canceled due to the Great American Stamp Show held in Cleveland in August 2023.

Also this week, answering the question of how many first-day covers to produce, and a worldwide mixture serves up a stamp with a Scott catalog value of $24.

It is no longer possible to create these types of covers today. In the 1960s, the Post Office Department began imposing minimum size requirements.

Webster has been commemorated on 15 Scott-listed U.S. postage stamps.