Stamp Insider for September–October 2013



The September–October issue of the Stamp Insider, journal of the Federation of New York Philatelic Societies, is online and available for free download in PDF format or viewing online with page turning.

The lead article is “The Burning Bread.” Authors Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris tell how manufacturers and electric companies promoted America’s “must have” appliance through the US mail.

Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris of West Sand Lake, New York, have edited the Postal History Journal for more than a decade. They have written for philatelic and collecting periodicals and have spoken on their postal historical research at business, history, and economics international conferences and at six postal history symposia sponsored by the APS and Smithsonian National Postal Museum. For more than 30 years, as aGatherin’, they have been full-time dealers in ephemera, specializing in all aspects of communications history.

Other articles include “Perps and Perfins” describing a Texas statehouse scandal that led to adoption of perfins in the early 1970s, revenue stamps used on bank checks signed by famous people, philately associated with Saratoga Race Course, which is celebrating its sesquicentennial, along with the usual columns and features.

The Stamp Insider is available in both PDF and HTML5-friendly format at:

http://www.stampinsider.org

The featured video — “Engraving a Canadian Stamp,” from a Discovery / Science Channel How It’s Made episode shows an engraver creating the $1 Canada Scott No. 1688 issued in 2005, depicting a doe and her fawn.

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