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Omaha Stamp Show - Omaha, Nebraska; Philatelic Show - Boston, Massachusetts; PIPEX - multiple locations in Oregon [52] Plymouth Show Detroit, Michigan; Rocky Mountain Stamp Show - Denver, Colorado (formerly ROMPEX) [52] ROPEX - Rochester, New York [52] St. Louis Stamp Expo - St. Louis, Missouri; Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition - Sarasota ...
Berkshire Stamp Club [85] Boston Philatelic Society [33] Bristol County Philatelic Society [86] Cape Cod Area Philatelic Group [87] Chelmsford Stamp Club [84] [68] Clara Barton Stamp Club [84] Fall River Philatelic Society [84] Franklin Stamp Club [84] Golden Bee Stamp Club [84] Granite City Stamp Club [84]
The stamps collected may be limited to the stamps of one country, or even to a particular issue such as Penny Lilac. A philatelic calendar extending from the first day of issue of the Penny Black to the present would include stamps canceled on each day from May 1, 1840 to the present, about 62,000 stamps as of 2011. Only someone who possesses ...
Admission is free of charge [7] and visitors can purchase a philatelic souvenir available to commemorate the show. These souvenirs come in the form of a Stampa overprinted Irish stamp issue, cover, or postcard with the show dates and venue. [8] Past souvenirs included the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, (2015) and the 1916 Rising (2016).
The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain in 1840, and by the early 1860s the first postage stamp forgery [3] —in the sense of a stamp created to fool philatelists into thinking that it is a genuine one—appeared on the market.
Today there is an extensive literature on the forgers and their work, and examples from the most accomplished forgers sometimes sell for more than the original stamp. Notorious and famous stamp forgers include: The Spiro Brothers [1] Rainer Blüm; Pêra de Satanás; Clive Feigenbaum; ex-chairman of Stanley Gibbons; Sigmund Friedl; Georges Fouré
The Cinderella Stamp Club was founded on 5 June 1959 in London, England, and is an association of philatelists, amateur and professional, whose interests lie in local stamps, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, revenue stamps, fiscals, forgeries, bogus and phantom issues, Christmas, Red Cross, TB and other charity seals, registration labels, advertisement and poster stamps and many other items ...
In summer 2019 in Omaha, author Dr. Yamil Kouri, Jr., won the Literature Grand and Large Gold awards in the American Philatelic Society's StampShow Literature Competition for his book Under Three Flags - The Postal History of the Spanish-Cuban / American War (1895–1898). The book was published by the Collectors Club of Chicago. [3]