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Ft. Lauderdale/Oakland Park Stamp Club (Oakland Park) [40] Gainesville Stamp Club [40] Gasparilla Stamp Club [44] General Francis Marion Stamp Club [40] George W. Linn Stamp Club (Howey-in-the-Hills) [40] Germany Philatelic Society [40] Golden Triangle Stamp Club [40] Halifax Area Philatelic Society [40]
Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
Scenes from American history, famous Americans, and traditional Christmas images are postage stamp themes frequently employing original artwork. The main references for the list are: National Postal Museum online database "Arago: Philately", [1] the Colnect Worldwide Stamp Catalog, [2] and the US Stamp Gallery. [3]
The stamps went on sale October 1, 1851, in three denominations covering three rates: the 2-cent stamp was for newspapers going to the US, the 5-cent value was for regular mail to the US, and the 13-cent value was for mail to the US East Coast, combining the 5 cents of Hawaiian postage, a 2-cent ship fee, and 6 cents to cover the transcontinental US rate.
This is a new sub category of Category:Images published abroad that are in the public domain in the United States to collect images of postage stamps only. Also a subcat of Category:Postage stamp images
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 ...
As the template mentions, stamp images in this category may only be used in accordance with the Wikipedia:Fair use criteria.. In some cases, the issuance of a stamp is itself notable, and the stamp may be allowable in the article (for instance, if the issuance of the stamp was an overtly political act, with the design chosen for political purposes).
Over the years, advertisements by H. E. Harris, which offered a quantity of stamps for a small amount of money (usually less than $1) on the condition that additional stamps were sent on approval, became ubiquitous in many magazines and comic books. [4] While the company was noted for selling low-cost packets of stamps, it sold rarities as well ...