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The United States Accomplishments in Space Commemorative Issue of 1967

Stamp collecting is the collectingofpostage stamps and related objects, such as covers (envelopes, postcardsorparcels with stamps affixed). It is one of the world's most popular hobbies, with estimates of the number of collectors ranging up to 20 million in the United States alone.

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Dean Cullen Smith (September 27, 1899 – March 4, 1987) was a pioneer American mail pilot, test pilot, flying instructor, Antarctic pilot, and airline pilot. At 17 years of age, he became the youngest flight instructor in U.S. Army history. He was a lead pilot for the U.S. Postal Service's airmail service, and was the first pilot to initiate night air mail flights. He was an executive for many airlines and aircraft companies.

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Keystone B-6 twin-engine air mail plane of the US Army Air Corps in snow storm

The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a 1934 congressional investigation of the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and the subsequent disastrous use of the U.S. Army Air Corps to fly the mail after the contracts were revoked.

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Image 2Unissued 1956 £1 Jamaican chocolate and violet, the first stamp designed for Queen Elizabeth II. Held in the British Library Crown Agents Collection.^[1]

Image 3Amagnifying glass is a convex lens which is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle though other designs are produced. A magnifying glass works by creating a magnified virtual image of an object behind the lens. Stamp collectors frequently use magnifying glasses to inspect their stamps. This photograph shows the magnified image of the Deutsche Post1Reichsmark stamp issued on May 12 1946.

Image 4Cover sent by Zeppelin from Gibraltar on 20 November 1934 to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via London and Berlin for the Christmas flight (12th South American flight) of 1934 that took place between the 8th and 19th. The two red "MIT LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN" and green circular marking were applied by the post office. This is a printed matter item that has been registered.

Image 5Advertising for the stamp dealer Charles Nissen on a booklet pane from the 1929 PUC stamps of Great Britain.

Image 6Apostal stationery envelope used from LondontoDüsseldorf in 1900, with additional postage stamp perfinned "C & S" identifying the user as "Churchill & Sim" per the seal on the reverse shown on inset. A perfin, the contraction of 'PERForated INitials', is a pattern of tiny holes punched through a postage stamp. Organizations used perforating machines to make perforations forming letters or designs in postage stamps with the purpose of preventing pilferage. It is often difficult to identify the originating uses of individual perfins because there are often no identifying features but when a perfin is affixed to a cover that has some user identifying feature, like a company name, address, or even a postmarkorcancellation of a known town where the company had offices, this enhances the perfin.

Image 7United States newspaper and periodicals stamps of 1875

Image 8This is a very scarce use of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, used on first day of valid use, May 6, 1840, tied by red Maltese Cross cancellation on folded cover to Warwickshire, brown "C MY-6 1840" first day datestamp on backflap verifies date of use. This was sold as lot 1018 at Robert Siegal's 2006 Rarities of the World auction for $45,000.

Image 9A 1910 Italian stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Expedition of the Thousand

Image 10A 1956 half penny stamp of the British Solomon Islands

Image 11A fawn colored UPSS size 7 stamped envelope, watermark 6, laid paper, US postal stationery envelope from the Plimpton series of 1883.

Image 12Ross Dependency 1957 issue (3 of 4 stamps)

Image 13Widespread hoarding of coins during the American Civil War created a shortage, prompting the use of stamps for currency. To be sure, the fragility of stamps made them unsuitable for hand-to-hand circulation, and to solve this problem, John Gault invented the encased postage stamp in 1862. A normal U. S. stamp was wrapped around a circular cardboard disc and then placed inside a coin-like circular brass jacket.

Image 14Amilitary stamp used by the British forces in Egypt around 1935

• ... that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?

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  Image 1Rows of perforations in a sheet of 1940 postage stamps (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 2The Basel Dove stamp (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 3The Penny Red, 1854 issue, the first officially perforated postage stamp (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 4A busy United Nations Post Office at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City (from United Nations Postal Administration)
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  Image 5The 1985 postage stamp for the 115th birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin. Portrait of Lenin (based on a 1900 photography of Y. Mebius in Moscow) with the Tampere Lenin Museum. (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 6The first United Nations stamp issued in 1951. (from United Nations Postal Administration)
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  Image 7Pre-stamp 1628 lettersheet opened up showing folds, address and seal, with letter being written on the obverse (from Postal history)
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  Image 8A 1987 Faroe Islands miniature sheet, in which the stamps form a part of a larger image (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 9Le PhilatélistebyFrançois Barraud (1929) (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 10Bavarian postal stationery postcard used from NurembergtoMunich in 1895 (from Postal history)
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  Image 11Postal censorship of 1940 civil cover from MadridtoParis opened by both Spanish and French (Vichy) authorities (from Postal history)
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  Image 12Lovrenc Košir, 1870s (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 13The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp (1 May 1840) (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 14Zeppelin mail from GibraltartoRio de Janeiro, Brazil via Berlin on the Christmas flight (12th South American flight) of 1934 (from Postal history)
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  Image 15First flight cover for NassautoMiami airmail route in 1929 (from Postal history)
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  Image 16A Costa Rica Airmail stamp of 1937 (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 17A philatelic First Day Cover from Abu Dhabi (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 18The Red Mercury, a rare 1856 newspaper stampofAustria (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 19The main components of a stamp:
  1. Image
  2. Perforations
  3. Denomination
  4. Country name (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 20With the growth of urban centres across the Western hemisphere in the 19th century Post Offices were located on main arterial routes (from Postal history)
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  Image 21The first officially perforated United States stamp (1857) (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 22A 1979 stamp issued for the United Nations Geneva office, denominated in Swiss francs. (from United Nations Postal Administration)
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  Image 231834 pre-adhesive mail with Wittingen straight-line town handstamp to Ebsdorf (from Postal history)
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  Image 24Rowland Hill (from Postage stamp)
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  Image 25The controversial 1981 United Nations stamp focusing on the "Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People". (from United Nations Postal Administration)
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  Image 26The US Mail postage stamp of Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim from 1961 (from Postage stamp)

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The Jamaica 6d abolition of slavery postage stamp was prepared for issue in June 1921 but cancelled shortly before issue due to political unrest and the controversial subject matter.

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