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The society was founded October 8, 1886. Its predecessor was the Chicago Stamp Collectors Union established a few years earlier, in December 1884. It has the distinction of being Chapter One of the American Philatelic Society because of its long and continuous service to philately. [1]
By the middle of the twentieth century, hundreds of stamp clubs had formed throughout the United States, often affiliated with large organizations, such as the American Philatelic Society or the American Topical Association. Many published their own scholarly articles or journals, while others advertised in the journals of larger philatelic ...
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
Sources: Invisible Institute, City of Chicago, Census Bureau, CNN. Of 10,500 complaints filed by black people between 2011 and 2015, just 166 — or 1.6 percent — were sustained or led to discipline after an internal investigation. Overall, the authority sustained just 2.6 percent of all 29,000 complaints.
The Great American Stamp Show will be in Cleveland this weekend for the first time since 1999. Rare stamps on display will include "Inverted Jenny." What to know about the Great American Stamp ...
Queen Victoria Lilac and Green Issue. The Lilac and Green issue is a series of postage and revenue stamps issued in the United Kingdom in 1883 and 1884. The stamps are known as such because they were only printed in those two colours; lilac being used for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 2d, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 3d values and dull green for the 4d, 5d, 6d, 9d and 1s.
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In 1881, the Customs and Inland Revenue Act was passed in the United Kingdom, and it stated that "stamp duties of one penny may be denoted by postage stamps, and vice versa." [4] This led to dual-purpose stamps being issued, starting with the Penny Lilac of 1881 and the Lilac and Green Issue of 1883–1884. The former was inscribed "Postage and ...