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5 unusual facts about stamps


Floyd D. Culbertson, Jr.

The position was decided in a runoff in which Arthur M. Wallace defeated Minden attorney Graydon K. Kitchens, Sr., a native of Stamps, Arkansas, who was reared in La Salle Parish and was a former law partner of future Governor Robert F. Kennon and later a Kennon appointee to the Louisiana Tax Commission.

Gather Together in My Name

When threatened with incarceration and with losing her son for her illegal activities, she and Clyde escape to her grandmother's home in Stamps, Arkansas.

Stamps-Baxter Music Company

Stamps got his start working for the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company from which he got many of his business ideas.

Stamps, Arkansas

From 1948-1950, the former professional football player George Doherty coached at Stamps High School and turned a winless team into two district championships and a second-place finish statewide.

Stamps.com

The Smoking Gun has publicized various stamp designs it successfully ordered featuring images of Jimmy Hoffa, spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and the DNA-stained blue dress of Monica Lewinsky.


1766 in Great Britain

20 February - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a British sloop outside of Wilmington, North Carolina seized one sloop sailing from Philadelphia and one sloop sailing from Saint Christopher on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

AMC Cavalier

It is part of a "Post Day" series of stamps illustrating a pair of early and modern automobiles.

Blue Chip Stamps

In 1975, a lawsuit filed by Blue Chip Stamps was decided by the Supreme Court in the opinion Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores.

Blue Penny Museum

The stamps were bought in 1993 for $2,000,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises headed by The Mauritius Commercial Bank and brought back to Mauritius after almost 150 years.

Calve Island

Local stamps were issued for Calve Island in 1984 bearing the image of a Basset Hound.

Carole Crawford

Jamaica Post issued a stamp of her face in honour of Crawford winning the Miss World title, which had an issue of three million stamps.

Cautese Nationál Postal Disservice

It produces parodies of Royal Mail stamps, some of which are collected by enthusiasts.

Cinderella stamp

Illustrator and anarchist Clifford Harper, whose family had an occupational history in the postal service, designed stamps "for post-revolutionary post" bearing the image of anarchist figures such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("property is theft"), Oscar Wilde, Emma Goldman and Emiliano Zapata.

Coffee Hag albums

This album was printed at three different locations (München, Laupen and an unmarked issue) with the same images, but the stamps differed slightly in design.

Coil stamp

A large percentage of modern stamps are sold in coil form, because they are more amenable to mechanized handling in large quantities than either sheet stamps or booklet stamps.

Designers of Pakistani stamps

Over the last 60 years, various people have designed Pakistani stamps with many graduates of the National College of Arts (earlier Mayo School of Arts), Lahore.

Éire

Noel Davern asked in the Dáil in 1974 why Irish stamps had EIRE rather than ÉIRE.

Emilio Diena

In addition to writing numerous articles in philatelic journals, Diena wrote in great detail on stamps of Modena, Romagna, Sicily, Parma, and Naples during the 1920s and 1930s.

Hasely Crawford

During his reign as the 100 metre Olympic champion, he also appeared on postage stamps and was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's highest honour, Trinity Cross, in 1978.

Inverted Jenny

The play Mauritius, written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, features the Inverted Jenny alongside the one- and two-penny Mauritius "Post Office" stamps.

Japeri

Is very known to be located next to the last station of the largest branch of the railroad of Brazil (Central do Brasil), whose image has been stamps in Brazil.

Joyce Grenfell

In 1998, the Royal Mail memorialised Grenfell with her image on a postage stamp as part of a series of stamps celebrating Heroes of Comedy.

Lawrence L. Shenfield

Each year, Shenfield's essay on Confederate postal usage and routes is included in the introduction to Confederate States stamps in the Scott catalogue.

Mart Poom

Poom also conceded a spotkick against promising young striker Adam Morris from Chesterfield in the 1998/1999 season and then Poom won the Jack Stamps Trophy (player of the year) at the end of the 99/00 season.

Merchant's mark

This mark forms the central emblem displayed on the Scinde Dawk postage stamps.

Moldavian Bull's Heads

Aside from the economic advantage derived from simplifying communications, the stamps and the symbol they used were a political statement against the Ottoman Empire that still exercised suzerainty over the principality.

Morton Dean Joyce

The Morton Dean Joyce Collection of United States Revenue Stamps was sold at the Daniel F. Kelleher Company auction June 4 to 6, 1991 and by the auction house of Andrew Levitt, in Danbury, Connecticut, in six sessions from September 12 to 14.

Personalised stamp

Although most postal regulations permit the exclusion of "objectionable" pictures on the stamps, in 2004 The Smoking Gun managed to create personalised stamps featuring the Rosenbergs, Jimmy Hoffa, Ted Kaczynski, Monica Lewinsky's dress, Slobodan Milošević and Nicolae Ceauşescu using the service offered by stamps.com.

Peter Emmerich

These stamps feature many well known and loved Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Cinderella, and The Lion King to name a few.

Postage stamp booklet

Booklets of telegraph stamps are known to have been issued by the California State Telegraph Company in 1870, and by Western Union in 1871, and on 14 October 1884 an A.W. Cooke of Boston received Patent 306,674 from the United States Patent Office for the idea of putting postage stamps into booklets.

Postage stamp gum

On Swiss stamps of the 1930s, Courvoisier used a gum-breaking machine that pressed a pattern of small squares into the gum, resulting in so-called grilled gum.

Postage stamp separation

The finest gauge ever used is 18 on stamps of the Malay States in the early 1950s, and the coarsest is 2, seen on the 1891 stamps of Bhopal.

Postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica

Costa Rican stamps were issued overprinted "Guanacaste" in 1885-89 following war with Nicaragua over the sovereignty of Guanacaste.

Postage stamps and postal history of Japan

Mackay, James. A. The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mozambique

In 1891 the Mozambique Company was chartered to administer the Manica and Sofala areas, for which they issued their own stamps until 1942.

Postage stamps and postal history of Norway

These stamps were also used in Jan Mayen island, and, from February 1945, in a Norwegian post office established in Stockholm.

Postage stamps and postal history of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Around 1988 the country became a client of the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation, which the island began to issue stamps of baseball players from 1988 until the mid-1990s, such as Babe Ruth on the 1988 issue.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Netherlands

A number of stamps have been issued since 1934 for use at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Q Link Wireless

Government benefit programs that meet qualifications vary by state, but commonly include Food Stamps (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income.

Richard Stamps

Richard B. Stamps (born 1942) was an associate professor of anthropology at Oakland University and Chair of The Ambassador Leonard Woodcock Legacy.

Robert Sterling Arnold

In addition to its popularity at shape note singings and inclusion in Stamps-Baxter's popular Heavenly Highway Hymns, No Tears in Heaven has been recorded by gospel quarters and artists such as Buck Owens, Skeeter Davis, Red Foley, and The Chuck Wagon Gang.

Rüppell's fox

The Libyan Posts (General Posts and Telecommunications Company, GPTC) in cooperation with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), dedicated a postal stamps issue to Rüppell's fox on May 1, 2008.

Sheet of stamps

The philatelist counts the single stamps horizontally from left to right, but the post counts them vertically from top to bottom.

Superquick

A number of Superquick models are destroyed in a scene in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where Sellers stamps on them in retribution for his son having "fixed" a paint blemish on Sellers's Bentley by painting a "go faster stripe" on the side.

Taagepera Castle

In 1933, the Eesti Post designed a series of four stamps with an anti-tuberculosis thema, of which the blue/red 10 cent stamp and the dark blue/red 20-cent stamp depict the Taagepera mansion house (at that time a sanatorium).

Telegraph stamp

The Royal Philatelic Collection of Queen Elizabeth II has many telegraph stamps as George V was an enthusiastic collector.

The Blackwood Brothers

By 1940, they were affiliated with Stamps-Baxter to sell songbooks and were appearing on 50,000-watt radio station KMA (AM) in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Tramp Stamps and Birthmarks

Tramp Stamps and Birthmarks is a 10 song album released by Logan Lynn on December 4, 2012.

Uganda Cowries

The values of the stamps varied, but all were denominated in cowries (monetary seashells), at 200 cowries per rupee or 12½ cowries = 1d.

William Herbert Miller, Jr.

Miller specialized in the collection and study of air mail stamps, but especially postage stamps and postal history related to Zeppelin flights and Pigeon Posts.

Wim Crouwel

Later, Crouwel designed the Number Postage Stamps for the Dutch PTT, well known in the Netherlands during its circulation from 1976-2002.

World Federation of United Nations Associations

For many years WFUNA conducted a fund raising program based on the sale of first day covers of UN stamps and lithographs produced by artists and celebrities, such as Picasso, Lou Zheng Jang, Miró, Salvador Dalí, Ruben Leyva, Al Hirschfeld and Andy Warhol to promote the ideals of the UN.


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