- 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.
Working Stamps
Monday, 14 April 2025
This Saturday! Kingston Spring Stamp Festival
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:Monday, 17 February 2025
New Vatican City Album
Thanks to Michele's generosity, my mainly-mint collection has burgeoned into its own album. I took a quick video of the results: new cover, glossary of some Latin/Italian inscriptions, the collection, then my collection of Pope John Paul II.
Youtube link here.
Thursday, 30 January 2025
2025 Coin & Stamp Show Planner
Friday, 17 January 2025
Hail, Colombia!
Sunday, 15 December 2024
Long & Noble Crusade 2.0 - The Leftovers
- Bahawalpur
- Dunes
- Falkland Islands
- Foroyar
- Jugoslavia
- Latvia
- Netherlands Antilles
- Solomon Islands
- Stans
- Tunisia
- Vatican City
- Zanzibar
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria (top photo)
- China
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Nations