The show will feature a bourse (sales area) with more than 30 dealer booths along with over 150 frames of competitive exhibits.

Participating in the ceremony were the Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy performance troupe who performed traditional lion and dragon dances.

Sometimes relatively recent U.S. stamp issues are overlooked by stamp dealers and collectors at the time they were issued.

The sales numbers for U.S. semipostals are updated on a more or less monthly basis on the Postal Service website.

For each of the two winners, the prize will be a 13-week subscription to Linn’s (a new subscription or an extension).

Canada Post will continue the long-running Black History Month series with an issue commemorating Marie Joseph Angelique, a Portuguese-born slave who allegedly set fire to her owner’s house in 1734.

The city of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, celebrated the Jan. 15 inauguration of its mayor Julio Roldan Concepcion.

In the introduction to the sale catalog, Rumsey provides some background on Milgram and his expansive knowledge of steamboats and their postal history.

According to Cherrystone, the Feb. 11-12 auction features more material that Kugel “assembled over a multidecade effort to build an expansive collection of philatelic and postal history items focused on military conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries.”

Also this week, a candidate for the earliest photo-cachet campaign cover, and some sage advice when looking for stamps from Latin America.

The stamps are denominated $1.65 for use for the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City.

Two postmarks for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States will be available from Washington, D.C.

According to Focus on Forgeries by Varo Tyler, the stamps of Sedang were forged in 1889, almost before the ink was dry on the genuine stamps.

Although no official USPS first-day ceremony is planned for the two stamps, the designated first-day city is Big Sky, Mont., an appropriate location, given the vastness of the stamps’ subjects.

The layout is similar to the pane of 20 for the Peanuts commemorative forever stamps issued Sept. 30, 2022.

Canada Post issued four new stamps in its multiyear From Far and Wide series Jan. 13 to match postal rate increases taking effect the same day.

Haimann will focus on consignor relations, marketing and expanding Cherrystone’s presence at United States national-level stamp shows and international exhibitions.

The Vicar of Dibley follows the female vicar Geraldine Granger (Dawn French) who is assigned to the church in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley.

The theme of the show will be the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

The catalog of 256 color pages by Franco Filanci and Domenico Tagliente is presented in both Italian and English.