Post by stampinsideronline on Mar 1, 2014 23:52:38 GMT
Stamp Insider for March–April 2014
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The lead article is “Flyspecking Alive & Well in America.” Author Rudy de Mordaigle provides vast insight into differences in seemingly identical modern definitives from different printers and reprints in introducing this aspect of philately.
Other articles include “Memories of a Philatelist” — one collector’s perspective on a hobby he has pursued for about 80 years, a timely explanation of why stamps cannot be claimed as Individual Retirement Account (IRA) investments, and a review of a reprinted classic book on wartime airmail routes.
In the featured video — “Stamp Design” — two Illustrators, an art director, and curator Daniel A. Piazza discuss digital and traditional methods of modern stamp design. The video is showing in the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum.
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www.stampinsider.org
The lead article is “Flyspecking Alive & Well in America.” Author Rudy de Mordaigle provides vast insight into differences in seemingly identical modern definitives from different printers and reprints in introducing this aspect of philately.
Other articles include “Memories of a Philatelist” — one collector’s perspective on a hobby he has pursued for about 80 years, a timely explanation of why stamps cannot be claimed as Individual Retirement Account (IRA) investments, and a review of a reprinted classic book on wartime airmail routes.
In the featured video — “Stamp Design” — two Illustrators, an art director, and curator Daniel A. Piazza discuss digital and traditional methods of modern stamp design. The video is showing in the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum.
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