Financial Times China slowdown creates uncertain outlook for stamps and artFinancial TimesA profit warning this week from rare stamp and coin dealer Stanley Gibbons Group has raised concerns that alternative investments such as stamps and art, which have soared on the back of strong Chinese demand, could be licked by …
Read More »World Post Day Special: 10 rarest and unique postage stamps of all times and … – International Business Times, India Edition
International Business Times, India Edition World Post Day Special: 10 rarest and unique postage stamps of all times and …International Business Times, India EditionWorld Post Day is celebrated annually on 9 October to mark the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in Berne, capital city of Switzerland. …
Read More »Siegel to auction US stamps, classic Hawaii from Atherton collection Oct. 27 … – Linn’s Stamp News
Linn’s Stamp News Siegel to auction US stamps, classic Hawaii from Atherton collection Oct. 27 …Linn’s Stamp NewsThe Siegel auction firm will offer this engraved-black-omitted error of the 1989 $2.40 Moon Landing stamp during its Oct. 27-29 auction. As a plate-number block, this eye-catching error is listed but not valued …
Read More »A moose, beaver and polar bear celebrate Christmas on new stamps from Canada – Linn’s Stamp News
Linn’s Stamp News A moose, beaver and polar bear celebrate Christmas on new stamps from CanadaLinn’s Stamp NewsCanada will feature animals dressed warmly for winter weather and a painting from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on four Christmas stamps to be issued Nov. 2. The nondenominated permanent-rate stamp (currently …
Read More »Stamps man dies after motorcycle struck by oncoming vehicle – Arkansas Online
Stamps man dies after motorcycle struck by oncoming vehicleArkansas OnlineA Stamps man died Thursday morning after his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle that veered into oncoming traffic in Lafayette County, according to an Arkansas State Police report. The driver of the vehicle, whose name was not released, was traveling …
Read More »Food stamps in jeopardy for more NC healthy adults – BlueRidgeNow.com
Food stamps in jeopardy for more NC healthy adultsBlueRidgeNow.comRALEIGH — Get a part-time job, get training, start volunteering or lose your food stamps: That's the message from Gov. Pat McCrory's administration and North Carolina lawmakers to certain healthy adults who have no dependents. But Republican lawmakers …and more » More: continued here
Read More »If you want food stamps, you might have to give up the ship – Bangor Daily News
If you want food stamps, you might have to give up the shipBangor Daily NewsThe food stamp asset test was enforced through most of Gov. John Baldacci's tenure, and it was only repealed in his administration's waning days. It does not apply to people's homes, clothes and cookware, or tools …
Read More »Free stamps available at youth fair – Moorpark Acorn
Free stamps available at youth fairMoorpark AcornINTRODUCTION TO A HOBBY— The Youth Stamp Fair will offer basic training for collectors on INTRODUCTION TO A HOBBY— The Youth Stamp Fair will offer basic training for collectors on Oct. 10 in Ventura. Thousands of free stamps along with … More: continued here
Read More »World Post Day: Lesser known facts about postage stamps – Mid-Day
Mid-Day World Post Day: Lesser known facts about postage stampsMid-DayThe Penny Black (pictured above) is considered as the world's first postage stamp. It was issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 to reform and improve the postal system in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, , …
Read More »‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ stamp goes on sale – USA TODAY
USA TODAY 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' stamp goes on saleUSA TODAYIt's time to start thinking about sending holiday cards. Today U.S. Postal Service released A Charlie Brown Christmas stamps in celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the classic TV special, according to a USPS statement. The cartoon, based on …Holiday …
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