An easy-to-use sourcebook for collectors, this guide is filled with the most current values and the latest market report along with all the information needed to become a knowledgeable stamp collector. Original.
In an easy-to-use, oversize format, "The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps" is just the delivery you've been waiting for! The only fully illustrated, four-color guide to U.S. stamps, this official publication provides the most comprehensive information available about the U.S. stamp program. Beginning with the first stamps issued in 1847, "The ...
Updated yearly, the "Brookman Stamp Price Guide" has been the nation's most accurate and respected guide for retail pricing of stamps and postal collectibles for more than 60 years. The 1998 edition includes 5,000 price changes for U.S., United Nations and Canadian stamps, First Day Covers, souvenir cards and most areas of postal collectibles from ...
An official guide to the U.S. stamp program and its history features coverage of nearly 4,000 stamps, providing Scott catalog numbers, dates of issue, a rundown of the current year's commemorative stamp program, and advice on how to start and maintain a personal collection. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Donald Evans was a quirky American artist who put his whole life and everything that interested him into the stamps of his fantasy world. Trained as an architect, he gave this up to travel in Europe. His stamps are now keenly collected throughout the world.
Since 1845, billions of brilliantly colored miniature works of art have been keeping our postal system afloat--and celebrating important individuals and major events in the history of our country. This book compiles and enlarges these postal gems--some magnified more than 2000 times--allowing readers to see intricate detail in these visually ...
A well-illustrated survey of American history that looks at the events the US Postal Service chose to celebrate. The authors trace more than 50 themes, all illustrated by stamps and photographs, and tell the stories behind them.
Collectors will reach for this must-have volume to identify major production errors, defects, fakes, and oddities in U.S. postage stamps. This hobby standard contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on these collectible stamps that can be worth up to thousands of dollars. Issues produced from 1857 to 2002 are covered in ...
The only fully illustrated, four-color guide to U.S. stamps, this official publication provides the most comprehensive information available about the U.S. stamp program and its vivid history. Beginning with the first stamps released in 1847, "The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps covers nearly 4,000 stamps issued up to the present, as well as: ...
Mauritius is famous for its dodo but there is another near-extinct export that has its own fabulous story - the world's most sought after postage stamps. "Post Office Mauritius" is an adventure that begins at a fancy dress ball on a tropical Indian Ocean island, and unfolds through discoveries of the stamps in Bordeaux, Mauritius, India and ...
Avoid costly mistakes. Paul Schmid's new edition explains how to detect alterations that can drastically affect a stamp's value and how to recognize regummed, reperforated, repaired and otherwise altered stamps.
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Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue: Vol. 3: Countries of the World: G-I