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Fur traders grace 50-cent postcard
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George Caleb Bingham, the 19th century American artist, has been
honored by having one of his most famous paintings, "Fur Traders
Descending the Missouri" featured on a new EXTRAordinary Art Card
issued May 4 at the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo.
As much as anything else, this postcard is extraordinary for the
fact that it costs 50 cents for a 15-cent postcard. It does feature
a glossy color photograph of the painting on one side and has room on
the reverse side for a per...
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Stamp Set Salutes Wild Animals
Chicago Sun-Times
; The theme of National Stamp Collecting Month is "Do Something Wild - Collect Stamps," and in keeping with that theme of wildness, the U.S. Postal Service will issue a booklet featuring five wild animals on Oct. 1 in New Orleans. The 29-cent stamps are arranged in a se tenant strip in the booklet,
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Atomic Bomb Postal Stamp Jars U.S. Historical Consciousness
AsianWeek
; Carrie C. Chang AsianWeek 12-09-1994 Atomic Bomb Postal Stamp Jars U.S. Historical Consciousness. By Carrie C. Chang Postage stamps have commemorated the first man walking on the moon, celebrated the landing at the Plymouth and captured countless species of flora and fauna within the margins of its
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Philatelic Phrenzy!(Scott No. 164 stamp sells for $397,838)(Brief Article)
Insight on the News
; A rare 19th-century stamp has turned collectors' worlds upside down and inside out. An American stamp so rare no copy is known to exist has sold for $397,838 in an online auction. The 24-cent stamp -- known as Scott No. 164, or the Lost Continental -- was found by Eraldo Magazzu of Poway, Calif.,
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Flight of Fancy: Forged Stamp Captures Imagination
The Washington Post
; Jim Gallup has traced every line of a rare 1918 stamp called the Inverted Jenny, copies of which can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. He recognizes the proper shade of red and blue on the stamp, the cloud pattern behind a biplane that is upside down in its center, and even knows most of the
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One-of-a-kind stamp nets $397,838.
The Washington Times
; ... only one is known to exist. Jay Tell in nearby La Jolla, Calif., champions Mr. Magazzu's cause, and in articles for stamp publications and in an ad published in Linn's Stamp News, he reminds experts that the Scott No. 164 is rarer than Z Grill.
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One-of-a-Kind Stamp Nets $397,838 in On-Line Auction.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ... publications and in an ad published in Linn's Stamp News, he reminds experts that the Scott No. 164 ... entire career, Mr. Tell said. This is major news, and certainly the last big story of the century ... Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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WHY TERENCE STAMP'S YOUNG BRIDE KEPT HIM WAITING FOR FIVE YEARS BEFORE SHE SAID 'I DO'; It was love at first sight when the Sixties star met Elizabeth O'Rourke in a Sydney chemist's. But she refused his proposals, fearing they would wreck her life . . .
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ... Year's Eve when they married in one of the most secretive of weddings. So secret that his oldest friends knew nothing until the news leaked out five days later. Stamp and his bride married in the plainest of rooms at Westminster Register Office in London - just ...
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 "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)")
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Experts say `rare' stamp a forgery.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
; Byline: Robert Nolin FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ It fired the imagination of stamp collectors worldwide: The Inverted Jenny, a rare and valuable stamp depicting an upside-down biplane, had turned up on a ballot mailed by an anonymous voter. It seemed the stuff of legend. It was. Two experts from
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Inverted jenny's a straight-up fake: Experts say `rare' stamp a forgery.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
; ... rnolin@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4525. Copyright (c) 2006, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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Postal Service Reissues Muslim Stamp; Some Had Protested Image Honoring Eid Feast Days
The Washington Post
; A postage stamp that commemorates Muslim feast days known as Eid, issued first by the U.S. Postal Service last year and created by an Arlington artist, has been reprinted this year, despite requests for its retraction immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Thirty-five million blue
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