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Whenever I’m in Washington, DC, (like I was on March 17, 2024) I visit our museum for stamp collectors – the Smithsonian National Postal Museum (NPM). It’s right next to…
If you’re like me, you’re finding the world kind of chaotic and a little scary right now. Foreign wars, politics, the economy and other big issues of the day are…
The US Postal Service announced October 23 many of the stamps it will issue in 2024. This is a partial list, with more to be revealed in the weeks and months ahead.
In 2008, I wrote this speech to honor my dear friend and fellow collector Janet Klug, who passed away on June 16th, 2023. I’ve been reminiscing about our long friendship…
The stamp-collecting world lost one of its kindest, most enthusiastic voices when my very good friend and fellow stamp collector, Janet Klug, passed away June 16th, 2023. During a 2014…
Ever since Elvis Presley’s death in 1977, fans across America clamored for a postage stamp honoring the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The world’s first Elvis stamps were issued by…
On April 12, 2022, Ukraine made big waves in the news with a new postage stamp picturing a Snake Island soldier flipping a Russian warship the bird. It was Ukraine’s…
Did you know Mystic now owns the only surviving printing press used to produce the first Confederate postage stamps?
Did you miss the recent stamp collecting segment on the CBS Sunday Morning show?