Emma Gilthorpe currently serves as the chief operating officer for Heathrow Airport.

The United States Postal Service took a different approach with its issuance of the new Manatees forever stamp March 27 in Silver Springs, Fla.

Stamps came to Ava by way of her mother, Erica, who pored over her own grandfather’s collection in Illinois when she was young.

One of the more eye-catching U.S. booklet items in the Larkin collection is a used pane of six of the U.S. 1907 1¢ Benjamin Franklin booklet stamp.

The designer of the most popular music stamp will be awarded the Yehudi Menuhin trophy, awarded in memory of violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99).

Banknote Corporation of America printed 20 million Ansel Adams stamps that were finished into panes of 16 for sale at post offices and other USPS-authorized locations.

Founded in 1935 as the Confederate Stamp Alliance, the group changed its name to the Civil War Philatelic Society in 2020.

Charles Epting serves as vice president of Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, secretary of the American Philatelic Research Library and trustee of the Philatelic Foundation.

Trish Jackson is currently a marketing campaign analyst for Cigna-Express Scripts.

The envelope is a postal collectible and cannot be mailed.

Also this week, an overview of the Rainbow Stamp Club blog site, and a fun word search puzzle focused on stamps picturing fruits and vegetables.

In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the British Beekeepers Association, the Isle of Man Post Office issued a set of six stamps on April 12.

Hatay issued its first set of postage stamps (Scott 1-11) in 1939 by overprinting and surcharging Turkish stamps.

When the black disc covering the moon on the 2017 Total Eclipse stamp is warmed, as from the touch of a finger, the moon is revealed. As the stamp cools, the black color returns and the moon is hidden once more.

President Theodore Roosevelt officially named the building “The White House” in 1901.

The show is presented by Portland Philatelic Exhibitions on behalf of the Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs.

The sale emphasizes China and “offers a number of attractive Shanghai Large Dragons, solid Dowagers and Red Revenues, Coiling Dragons, Junks, etc.,” Kelleher and Rogers said.

FedEx had been the principal air carrier for domestic first-class and parcel mail for more than 20 years.

Each stamp in the set of 10 shows three commemorative stamps issued around the same time in the past century.

Erivan Haub (1932-2018) was a billionaire and retail businessman whose prodigious collecting interests spanned the globe.