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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]
Juell, Rodney A. and Steven J. Rod. Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting. Minneapolis: Kirk House Publishers, 2006 ISBN 978-1886513983, 730p. Phillips, David G. et al.' American Stampless Cover Catalog: The standard reference catalog of American Postal History" Vol. 1, 1987 454p David G Phillips Publishing Co.
Cachets are also frequently made, either by private companies or a government, for first day of issue stamp events or "second-day" stamp events. They are often present on event covers . The first cacheted FDC (first day cover) was produced by prominent philatelist and cachet maker George Ward Linn in 1923, for the Warren G. Harding memorial ...
A rubber stamp is an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved, or vulcanized onto a sheet of rubber. Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to a rubber stamp, and used to make decorative images on some media, such as paper or fabric. [1] [2] [3] [4]
This was a series of 18 stamps available at U.S. post offices from 1945 to 1951. They were used for sending small amounts of money. Printed in grey and black with a simple uniform design, they ranged in value from 1 to 90 cents. Their Scott catalogue designations are PN 1 to 18. [9] In used condition collectors can purchase all of them at very ...
Butyl rubber gloves. Butyl rubber, sometimes just called "butyl", is a synthetic rubber, a copolymer of isobutylene with isoprene. The abbreviation IIR stands for isobutylene isoprene rubber. Polyisobutylene, also known as "PIB" or polyisobutene, (C 4 H 8) n, is the homopolymer of isobutylene, or 2-methyl-1-propene, on which butyl rubber is ...
Illustration of 1896 Addressograph with movable belt of rubber plates Addressograph, 1950. An addressograph is an address labeler and labeling system. In 1896, the first U.S. patent for an addressing machine, the Addressograph was issued to Joseph Smith Duncan of Sioux City, Iowa. It was a development of the invention he had made in 1892.
After acquiring Carter's Ink Company in 1975, Dennison made the business decision to discard all of Carter's records from the 1860s on, including all of Carter's meticulous ink research records. The Carter name is still used by Avery-Dennison on some ink-related products such as rubber stamps. [4]