The sale opens with a handsome selection of essays and proofs of the 1847 issue through various modern issues.

Guernsey Post showcases the Royal Golden Guernsey Goat with a July 16 issue featuring two physical stamps along with their digital twins.

The Saint Albans Historical Society in Saint Albans, Maine, is offering a pictorial postmark honoring the life and music of Raymond LeRoy Clark (1917– 2000), known professionally as Yodelin’ Slim Clark.

In an era where stamp collecting is evolving to meet a new generation of digital-savvy hobbyists, the piXPost app lands at just the right moment.

Banknote Corporation of America printed the new SpongeBob SquarePants forever stamps in a quantity of 36 million stamps in 2.25 million panes of 16.

Some stamp designs have the power to draw you in. The longer you look at them the more you see, and the more your imagination kicks in.

Each stamp in the pane of 20 presents a snapshot of a different time and place experienced by the postal carrier as she walks with her mail cart along her route delivering mail to customers in a busy town.

At the 2025 Great American Stamp Show in Schaumburg Ill., the United States Postal Service will hold a first-day ceremony for the release of a se-tenant (side-by-side) pair of nondenominated (78¢) forever stamps commemorating the Boston 2026 World Stamp Exposition.

A number of competitive exhibition classes have been added after the International Federation of Philately upgraded the status of the show from recognition to patronage.

The society offers the Royal Philatelic Society London medal each year along with the Tapling, Tilleard, Lee and Crawford medals.

Twelve dealers and the United States Postal Service will have booths at the show, and the show will include up to 40 frames of exhibits.

Austria has issued many stamps shaped like the object they commemorate and made from fabric, leather, crystal and other unusual materials.

This year’s four philatelic candidates highlight the scholarship’s continuing mission: fostering community-focused engagement through philately.

The new nondenominated (78¢) Benjamin Franklin stamp will be issued as part of a 32-page prestige booklet containing two panes of 10 of the stamp.

What do these Scott numbers signify? In short, each stamp’s listing in an upcoming edition of the 2026 Scott catalogs.

Given the color of the spot in the selvage above the left stamp, there can be little doubt that it is the same ink that printed the stamp.

The sale, which contains more than 1,600 lots, opens with enticing selections of stamps from Great Britain, Australia, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, India, Ireland, Jordan, Leeward Islands, Mauritius, Nevis, New Zealand and Straits Settlements.

Presented in two horizontal se-tenant (side-by-side) strips of five, the stamps show 10 different species of mushrooms found in the United Kingdom.

The postal card’s stamp design is based on a photo taken by renowned nautical photographer Billy Black of a 2014 replica of the schooner Columbia.

This new edition, updated through December 2024, includes expanded sections that reflect recent initiatives and strategic directions of the USPS.