The reason for expert certification is simple; it is to have an independent third party confirm and insure that the stamps you buy are genuine and "as described". Expert committees indentify stamps and...
BACKGROUND; From the earliest days of the war between the States, designs began to appear on envelopes sold to the public which expressed various kinds of sentiments of patriotism and/or negative...
INTRODUCTION; Possibly as many as 2,000 different fancy cancellations exist from the period between the early 1920s to the mid 1930s, but this area of fancy cancel collecting is often misunderstood. It is the...