The price is $19.95 plus $1.50 for postage and handling you may use MasterCard, Visa or American Express. Postage Stamp, 1842-1869,” by Rohrbach and Newman, available from the Smithsonian Institution Press, P. One of the most recent, published in November, is “American Issue: The U.S. Q: Where can I buy a good book on early United States stamps? I want to read about these stamps before collecting or investing my money because I’ve heard that they are expensive and are sometimes faked.-W.O.Ī: There are many books on early U.S. Seals that don’t celebrate Christmas aren’t collected to any extent. Even today, later issues are just too common to be worth anything. Only Christmas Seals dating before 1920 are of monetary value to collectors. Do these have any value?-E.R.Ī: Not really. Q: I was given a collection of full pages of Easter Seals, Boys Town, “Be Thankful You Can See” and Christmas TB Seals, some dating back to 1940. The price was 25 cents per cover or five for $1. I was at a stamp show recently where one dealer had a box of first-day covers from the last 30 years for sale. Q: How can one determine the value of a collection of first-day covers? Is there a printed price list available?-N.W.Ī: Many dealers have price lists of common first-day covers, but you have to remember that most covers from the last 40 years are plentiful and cheap. Some specialists collect the covers of one whole state or from a certain period of time (such as before the Civil War or just from the 1900s). Many stamp collectors save envelopes postmarked in their home towns (I am one of them) during all periods of philatelic history. Each stamp pictures soldiers with a cannon and battle flags.-S.G. The top margin is printed with the phrase International Philatelic Exhibition, Oct. Twenty-five stamps are on the sheet, with wide borders all around. Q: Please evaluate my souvenir sheet of U.S. As far as I know, the Santa Monica cancel on this cover is not scarce. Although some collectors specialize in these covers from as many cities as they can find, the total quantity keeps the covers’ value down. Postal Service corporation that replaced the old Post Office Department on July 1, 1971. This stamp, showing an eagle and the Postal Service logo, was made in honor of the new U. An estimated 16,300,000 of these covers were issued and canceled at many different cities across the country. Does it have any value?-S.S.Ī: Maybe 25 cents. Q: I have an envelope canceled at Santa Monica on July 1, 1971, with an 8-cent Postal Service stamp and a multicolored design on the left side of the envelope’s front, indicating that this is a first-day cover. Well-centered copies with full original gum sell for more than off-center, disturbed-gum stamps. Condition is crucial when determining the market prices of expensive airmails or the Columbian series. The 30-cent Columbian retails at $150 to $200 mint, maybe $50 to $60 canceled. The Zeppelin stamp from 1930 retails at $300. A missing I card of this 1958 issue has a catalogue value of $10, while the normal card is 40 cents. Is this a major error? Also, could you evaluate an unused 65-cent Graf Zeppelin stamp and a used 30-cent Columbus at La Rabida?-D.C.Īnswer: Your postal-card error is definitely worth more than the normal variety. Question: I have an unused postal card, purple 3-cent Liberty, with the I of In God We Trust missing.
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