These arcades have long been a home for the philatelic trade, and many of the window displays in the tiny shops feature used stamps and postcards.
Only 100 were printed with its central image -- the Curtiss JN-4 airplane -- upside-down, and today a single copy of this Holy Grail of philatelic flubs sells for more than a million dollars.
He was also the author of "Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works" (Linn's Stamp News, 1991).
The Secretariat has made a deal with the U.S. Post Office by which the US Post Office will staff and run the UN office, retaining the money that come in from sales of stamps, while the proceeds of philatelic orders, which will be handled by mail only, will be kept by the UN.
Surely the phenomenal career of this extraordinary statesman has provided enough images worthy of philatelic immortalization to fill an entire series: Nixon telling the nation that "Pat doesn't have a mink coat, but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat".
He works on the stamps for the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp., a 48th St. concern that broke into the stamp market in the late nineteen-fifties with the decolonization of Ghana.
The initiative became known for its Stamp Plan, a philatelic programme that raised funds through United Nations member countries, as well as the support of the Universal Postal Union.
For this show, he continues his philatelic experiments and adds a new series of related works: ink drawings of currency and stock certificates.
