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Jun 14, 2024 · William H. Gross’ phenomenal three-decade run building a complete collection of classic-era United States stamps came to a partial end on June 14 when Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sold the top 100 most valuable stamps for $18.1 million, a record sum for a collection of U.S. material.
Mar 8, 2024 · 1 - King George V - the 2d blue king. George V loved stamps so much he'd sometimes pinch them from his own printers. No modern survey of stamp collecting is complete without the UK’s Royal Philatelic Collection. It is the most complete British and British Imperial collection in existence.
- The Inverted Jenny
- 1847 Issue Block of 16 of Ben Franklin
- Almanac Stamp of 1765 Or 1766
- ‘Blue Boy’ Alexandria Postmaster’S Provisional
- 1869 Pictorials—Inverted Center Errors
- Two-Cent Blue Hawaiian Missionary
- 1860 Stolen Pony Cover
- Pan-American Inverts
- Cia Invert
- Stock Exchange Invert
Debatably the rarest stamp error in U.S. history, the Inverted Jenny is among the most mythical. The plane depicted on the stamp is the JN-4HM, built by the Curtiss company in the middle of World War I(95 percent of U.S. pilots trained on JN-4s during WWI). Philately, like many other hobbies, enjoys the self-referential: this was the first plane us...
The year 1847 is a huge one for stamps: this was the first year that you could purchase stamps from the United States government and affix them to a piece of mail as a method to prepay for its delivery (the legislation was passed in 1845). These are examples of the very first U.S. Federal stamps. Naturally, a great deal of correspondence was exchan...
The Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1765, often cited as one of the immediate causes of the American Revolution, was, in fact, a tax. It was levied on American paper used for legal, official or everyday useful documents: ship’s papers, business licenses, calendars, declarations, inventory, etc. —even playing cards. The “stamp” was ap...
In the world of U.S. stamp collecting, the Blue Boy is akin to the Mona Lisa. Between 1845, when Congress established federally standardized rates for postage and 1847, when the first federal postage stamps were produced, postmasters in counties and cities within the 29 states issued their own provisional stamps. Postmasters got creative with the d...
Stamp collectors love rarities, firsts and errors—and these stamps have all three, plus some politics. While the stamps were printed under President Ulysses S. Grant, their issue was conceived in 1868, during the fraught days after Andrew Johnson had been impeached, but still held on to power. Highly controversial and discontinued after one year, t...
In 1963, Lifemagazine said this stamp “Pound for pound, is the most valuable substance on earth.” The stamp dates back to 1851 when Hawaii was a sovereign nation and a popular destination for American missionaries spreading the gospel. Yet the Kingdom of Hawaii’s postmaster was American, and Honolulu’s and San Francisco’s post offices were well-con...
This stamp offers a peek into the American mythos of “cowboys and Indians.” Established in 1860, the Pony Expresswas a private mail service using a network of young riders and stations wherein mail could travel from across the country in approximately 10 days (the alternative was stagecoach or ship). Its parent company, Central Overland California ...
Transportation was the key theme of the six commemorative stamps—featuring the bridge at Niagara Fallsand a steam engine, among others—issued in 1901 to commemorate the Pan-American Exhibition held in Buffalo, NY. Because these stamps were printed in two colors, the opportunity was ripe for error, and pictorials on the sheets of the 1, 2 and 4-cent...
They’re tricky, those CIA agents. Between 1975 and 1981, the Post Office released a series of Americana stamps, four of which depicted light sources. Of these, a $1 stamp—depicting a colonial rush lamp and candle holder—was printed as an invert on a single pane of 100 stamps. In 1986, nine CIA agents who noticed the error purchased the pane with th...
This stamp gets recognition not only because it’s an invert, but because it’s the last invert that the United States Post Office printed, back in 1992—on a stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Only 56 of these stamps are known to be in existence. Surrounded by a green border with red numerals, the inverte...
Jun 9, 2024 · Gross, who built the most complete collection of US stamps in history, is putting it for sale piece by piece on Friday and Saturday at the Robert A Siegel auction house. Presale estimates suggest...
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The National Philatelic Collection is among the world's largest and most valuable stamp collections and, along with the Postmaster General's Philatelic Collection, is one of two stamp collections owned by the United States.
May 3, 2021 · It had once been owned by Frederick E. Dixon, whose description placed it in the context of that original 18th-century revenue stamp collection: Most philatelists collect only postage stamps, and think of 1840 as the date of the first stamps — the penny black and the twopenny blue.
The first US postage stamp to incorporate microprinting as a security feature was the American Wildflower Series introduced by the United States Postal Service in 1992. It was also the first commemorative stamp to be wholly produced by offset lithography.
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