Also this week, the intriguing backstory of the unveiling of the United States 1994 World Cup souvenir sheet, and an exploration of covers carried by trans-Pacific Clippers on the eve of Pearl Harbor.

Among the enhancements for the Scott Classic Specialized catalog this year were changes in the Indian Feudatory States with a reorganization of listings and more.

The company got its start through a full-page ad in Linn’s.

The two stamps issued by Swiss Post on Nov. 10 depict a brick-built chalet on the 90-franc denomination and a cow on the 1.10fr.

Also this week, an unforgivable philatelic horror story driven by greed, and colonial stamps honor a Free French hero.

The Tutankhamun set includes 12 stamps, eight in four horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) pairs and four in a souvenir sheet.

From 1906 to 1926, Tunisia issued a set of 29 definitive stamps.

The 2022 symposium will cover political systems, postal administrations and the mail.

According to Royal Mail, customers can now send mail franked with definitive stamps without barcodes for the six months following Jan. 31, 2023.

Why has the Machin design endured and thrived for five decades? There are several reasons.

What’s old becomes new again on a stamp issued Oct. 21 by Austrian Post.

Also this week, the story of an Express Mail cover to Lithuania that spent three months in the mailstream before being returned to the sender, and a word search puzzle featuring housewares illustrated on stamps.

The stamp does not depict an actual menorah but instead features nine multicolored representations of flames.

The stamp design features a black-and-white image of Monique Mercure with her first name in large red letters at the top of the stamp and her last name at the bottom.

Also this week, finding collectors within the U.S. Postal Service, and a favorable review of a sample from a mixture of 500 off-paper worldwide stamps.

The design shows a Ukrainian soldier on the beach at Snake Island offering a middle finger salute to a Russian warship in response to the Russian demand that the island defenders surrender.

As in other years, Canada Post offers the choice of stamps featuring religious Christmas imagery or secular holiday imagery.

A highlight for this year’s Scott Digital Catalogue Subscription edition of the Classic Specialized catalog was the addition of approximately 400 new images.

What do these Scott numbers signify? In short, each stamp’s listing in an upcoming edition of the 2024 Scott catalogs.

For the first time in a Royal Mail Christmas issue, each stamp has a barcode printed in one of the dominant colors of the stamp.