Working Stamps
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Hold On and I'll Go and Czech!
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Summertime Sunroom Sorting
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Sixty Bucks o' Fun! Kingston Spring Stamp Festival
STAMPed Volume 4 Published!
Monday, 14 April 2025
This Saturday! Kingston Spring Stamp Festival
- Jim Skelding. a postcard dealer from Merrickville will be bringing 150 vintage Kingston/Queen's postcards.
- John Beddows, a dealer from Gananoque will have some vintage Kingston postal material.
- Graham Noble, a club member will have some Kingston-based postcards.
Thursday, 10 April 2025
Why Stamp Collecting...
This Canadian Stamp News article explains why quite concisely. A nice break from (how one somewhat-critical article described) philately becoming simply postal history. When we focus only on Penny Blacks and hoary old covers with nearly-unintelligible postmarks and quill-penmanship, we forget what interested us in the first place: bright, colourful, engaging.
Friday, 21 March 2025
Boston 2026 World Expo - Donations Wanted!
I will be making a donation, especially my hundreds of the same NZ bird stamps! I appreciate the fact that the organizers are offering the stamps not only to the perennial 'youth' but also 'beginners' of any age. Also...glassines.
Update: I put together a package of 3,825 New Zealand and 1,710 US doubles. The former from a bargain pack of a half-dozen bird and other NZ stamps picked up for $2.50 at the most recent stamp show in Kingston. The U.S. were from a packed stock book of US at a previous show purchased for $12. Found a few I needed for my collection, several postmark improvements on some already in the collection, and the rest now going to new homes. That's 5,535 stamps heading to Boston soon!
Update: I saved a dollar on postage by making the weight up to 500 grams. Even so, I had another 600 U.S. and a few New Zealand stamps that wouldn't fit, so those stamps went in a separate mailing, along with some surplus glassines!
As of March 21, over 2 million stamps have been received! I got this nice letter in the mail acknowledging my donation: