Stamp Collecting News

Gary Eggleston, BellaOnline's stamps editor, writes on the site, "Stamp collecting is an enriching hobby because it has educational and cultural value.

A press release from the American Philatelic Society announces, "A pilot program for more than 100 preschool students in five Head Start Classrooms in central Pennsylvania has completed its first year.

Stamp collecting is a long established hobby but the offshoots are becoming ever more popular too.

Bermuda has released a set of commemorative stamps to honor those involved in the 1959 theatre boycott which ended segregation in public buildings including theatres, hotels and schools around the country.

According to an article by Chris Campbell on the Bitdepth.org website, "The two main movie theatres had segregated seating with the balcony and centre section reserved for those whose skin was white and the rest of the theatre was open to those whose skin was darker. Segregation ran throughout Bermudian society and an anonymous group decided to organize a boycott of the theatres. Two weeks after the boycott began the hotels, restaurants and movie theatres all were desegregating."

Bryan Adams, singer-songwriter Stompin' Tom Connors, French-Canadian rocker Robert Charlebois and Acadian songstress Édith Butler appear on four new Canadian stamps

. “We chose artists that really paved the way and set their foot on the path of where Canadian artists are today,” said Canada Post spokeswoman Nicole Lemire. “This stamp issue is really being released to draw attention to the great Canadian recording artists who haven't just had impact on Canadians, but individuals around the world.”

Educator, scholar, feminist and activist Anna Julia Cooper (c.1858-1964), who gave voice to the African-American community during the 19th and 20th centuries — from the end of slavery to the beginning of the Civil Rights movement — has been immortalized on a postage stamp.

Cooper, best known for her groundbreaking collection of essays and speeches, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, also exhibited educational leadership, most notably challenging the racist notion that African Americans were naturally inferior.

The 44-cent First-Class Anna Julia Cooper commemorative stamp features a portrait of her created by Kadir Nelson of San Diego, CA, who based his painting on an undated photograph. Nelson worked under the direction of Art Director Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, MD.

Ms. Cooper is the 32nd honoree in the Black Heritage series.

Make no mistake, in the world of philately, when "up" is erroneously "down," value goes up -- way up.

Britain's Telegraph reports, "A fire-breathing dragon, a giant carrying a boulder and Queen Mab riding her chariot are among the characters from British folklore featured on the six postage stamps."

Two first class stamps have images of a majestic stone-grey unicorn and a flame-spitting dragon, while a pair of 62p stamps for worldwide airmail letters show a pixie riding a snail and a boulder-wielding giant.

Artist Dave McKean and novelist Neil Gaiman, the creators of the Sandman comic books, collaborated to design the stamps and accompanying presentation pack in which Gaiman explores the history of the creatures.

Stamp collecting is an enriching hobby because it has educational and cultural value.

The ins and outs of stamp collecting can strike an outside ear as so much esoteric jabbering about phosphor bands and dandy rolls.

Much like coins, stamps also have grades assigned to them. The grade of a stamp refers to the stamp's condition.

Mauritius: Drama. By Theresa Rebeck. Directed by Loretta Greco. With Zoe Winters, Rod Gnapp and James Wagner.

THOUSANDS of tiny squares of paper will be displayed in Sheffield when the city hosts a major stamp convention.

The Cayman Islands Postal Servicea s Philatelic Manager Karen McField visited several elementary schools recently to demonstrate the different aspects of stamp collecting and provide students with ideas on how to begin stamp collections.

At Least 5,000 stamps were collected at a roadshow in Belait yesterday to mark the challenge of collecting 25,000 stamps in conjunction with Brunei's Silver Jubilee National Day celebration.

Like any hobby stamp collecting has its own jargon and terminology that the beginning collector needs to learn.

A new Internet portal to stamp collecting - http://www.learnaboutstamps.com - has been established by the American Philatelic Society, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, the Philatelic Foundation and the U.S. Postal Service.

Hobby of the kings Stamp collecting is far from dead. Rather, it is reinventing itself, thanks to online catalogues and e-auctions, writes K. Jeshi Photo: M. Periasamy Stamping ground While the internet has put the skids on snail mail, it is an incredible resource for philatelists American president Franklin D Roosevelt was a stamp buff.

With the approval of China Post, a speciality postage stamp shop has been opened in Changsha, Hunan.