#Stamp collecting
Lethbridge Philatelic Society auction is unique opportunity for dormant and new collectors
Every year, members of the Lethbridge Philatelic Society look forward to the club's annual auction meeting in May. According to info received by FindYourStampsValue.com this year's auction will be held on the 14th of May. This is a great opportunity to pick up philatelic material for collections, often at very reasonable prices. Members of other local clubs are invited to come and bid on the lots,
Define what type of stamp collector you are!
It is the great variety of methods of collecting that attract so many: collect anything you want and as much or as little of it as you like. Spend a dollar a month on your collection or $10,000. It's up to you, with no one to dictate otherwise. What types of stamp collectors are there? FindYourStampsValue.com offers to our readers to define what type of stamp collector they are basing on informat
Philately for the Blind – unusual Braille Stamps
FindYourStampsValue.com would like to share an interesting info with our readers concerning a special branch of philately – stamp collecting for the blinds. The Braille stamps are philatelic items that were specially designed for the people who have such a disability. Louis Braille invented the alphabet that bears his name starting in 1821. Remarkably, he was just 15 years old when he completed hi
Legendary philatelist Hiroyuki Kanai and the history of stamp collection
FindYourStampsValue.com would like to inform our readers about one of the most famous stamp collectors and describe the history of his hobby. Hiroyuki Kanai is worth to be mentioned in this article and to be commemorated in the world of philately. Hiroyuki Kanai could claim more than almost anyone else to have spent his whole life collecting stamps. He was born in 1925 in Osaka, the son of a wealt
A woman who can’t imagine herself not collecting stamps
FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform our readers about a woman who have collected the stamps the whole life. This hobby made the history of her life. In 1933, Margaret (Cantleberry) Hines was 8 years old and living on her family’s farm near Lincoln. Times were hard. It was the Great Depression. Hines remembers, though, that her Aunt Stella gave her a book that year that changed her life forev
Stamps donation will help to save a child’s life
FindYourStampsValue.com got to know interesting info concerning stamps and stamp collecting. Who could only imagine that a pile of stamps helped to support a child with a serious illness? Thousands of stamps have poured in after a couple put out an appeal to help collect as many as possible to raise money to find a cure for their daughter's rare genetic disease. Carly and Paul Hadman set up stamp
Historical American postage stamps that have caused a great Controversy
FindYourStampsValue.com would like to inform our readers with interesting information about American postage stamps that caused a great controversy among the people and philatelists. They are also called the stamps of disapproval. So let's begin… In March 1869, the US Post Office Department issued a set of ten stamps that broke from convention. While the faces of American patriots had stared up at
A rare Inverted Jenny is to be auctioned in Arizona
FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform that an Inverted Jenny will hit the auction block in a February 21 Michael E. Aldrich Auction, a Carefree, Arizona based company, for the first time ever. The Inverted Jenny has long been known as the holy grail of stamp collecting. This prized and most coveted stamp in the world of stamp collecting is part of an auction that will be held at Arizona's
Newly discovered stamps are to fetch a quarter of a million pounds at auction
FindYourStampsValue.com got to know that a collection of rare stamps which have been collecting dust in an attic for more than 100 years are now set to fetch at least a quarter of a million pounds at auction after being discovered. The 35 Chinese stamps, which were originally bought by an English missionary in Shanghai in 1882, were recently uncovered in an old cigar box in the attic of a property
First Canadian Christmas stamp expanded the British Empire
FindYourStampsValue.com hurries to share interesting info with our readers. This article is devoted to the stamp that almost changed the history – even such a tiny piece of paper could lead to great changes. In 1898 Canada issued what is claimed to be the first Christmas stamp. It also increased the boundaries of the British Empire as it was then known by several thousand square miles! Officially
