Also this week, a look back at the first dollar-denominated stamp in the popular United States Great Americans series, and a hunt for Harry Potter characters in a word search puzzle.

U.S. Stamp Notes columnist John M. Hotchner discovered Stan Rogers’ music about 30 years ago.

Three Swiss stamps celebrating the 125th anniversary of cinema won the 51st edition of the Asiago international awards for philatelic art held on July 25 in Asiago, Italy.

One of the highlights of the new digital option is an enhanced search capability.

The new set is being offered as six single stamps in panes of 25 and in souvenir sheets of one with a decorative border that extends the scene on the stamp.

The stamps are for use from the U.N. post office at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria.

The set in very fine grade is a good buy at or near Scott catalog value in both unused, hinged condition and in used condition.

Also this week, stamps honoring presidents of the Baltic states who served between World War I and World War II, and tapping into the imagination that fuels innovative first-day covers.

Royal Mail worked closely with historian Barrie Trinder to develop the Industrial Revolutions stamps.

Attendees will find a bourse (sales area) of more than 70 dealers offering stamps and covers from around the world.

Nicaragua and Panama were among the countries that received a thorough review with thousands of value changes made.

The Royal Philatelic Society London awards the Crawford medal each year for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately published in book form.

The attractive stamp designs include a freed slave throwing off his shackles, a map, local scenes, and an African elephant.

Papers must be previously unpublished and address how analyses were used to solve a philatelic problem.

The set includes 10 stamps showing photographs of anemones, birds, cold-water coral reefs, crustaceans, fish, mammals and mollusks; and a souvenir sheet of four stamps illustrating four levels of the marine food chain.

This event featuring both stamp and Lego displays will take place Sept. 25-26.

The $1.80 Mother Teresa stamp is intended for use from the U.N. post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City.

The stamp shows Rogers singing and playing guitar in the foreground and a view of Fogarty’s Cove in Nova Scotia in the background.

Also this week, a philatelic review of the lighthouses on stamps found online, and our anonymous reviewer finds good value in sample of stamps from a worldwide mixture.

The United Nations Postal Administration is issuing Sport for Peace stamps and souvenir sheets July 23 to mark the start of the Summer Olympics, Tokyo 2020.