From 1964 to 1972 Al-Fujayrah issued many stamps for collectors; these stamps had no legitimate postal purposes and were not recognized by reliable catalogs and philatelic organizations.
In 1964 72 a large portion of Al-Shāriqah's revenue came from commemorative stamps, printed almost solely for philatelic purposes.
Its special offerings include the Oriental and India Office Collections (transferred from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982), the National Sound Archive (formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound, incorporated into the library in 1983), printed music, a map library, and philatelic materials.
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.
The small gold trophy had been brought from Brazil, and was put on display in the Central Hall, Westminster, under a heavy security guard, as part of a sporting and philatelic exhibition.
In the U. N. Postal Administration's first four years, it averaged $400,000 a year from its philatelic sales; last year, it made $1,400,000.
On the morning of January 25 , 1937 Cosey entered the shop of a stamp dealer named Walter Gisiger, at 80 Nassau Street, in the heart of the philatelic district, with a Lincoln letter commenting on a decision by the Illinois courts against the Wells Fargo Express Company and enclosed in an envelope postmarked Springfield, Illinois.
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".
philatelic-minded gentleman was elated when, upon receiving an uncle's stamp colletion in the settlement of an estate, he found it consist largely of… Anecdote about two young boys who cannot abide any hint of romance in their movies.
philatelic-minded gentleman was elated when, upon receiving an uncle's stamp colletion in the settlement of an estate, he found it consist largely of blocks.
Among the journals founded in the 19th and early 20th centuries and still extant are the American Philatelist (founded 1887), published by the American Philatelic Society, and the London Philatelist (published by the Royal Philatelic Society) and The Stamp Lover (1908) in Britain.
