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ISSUE 179 - November 7, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine

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Browsing the Web

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 176 - Bringing Proprietaries to Life by John F. Dunn
  3. Issue 144 - The World Cup—A Pictorial History on Stamps by John F. Dunn
  4. Issue 125 - From Earthquakes to Marconi by John F. Dunn
  5. Issue 123 - The World Cup — A pictorial history on stamps by John F. Dunn 
  6. Issue 122 - The Gem-Studded Divide by J. Van Kird Wells
  7. Issue 113 - From Earthquakes to Marconi by John F. Dunn
  8. Issue 86 - Bringing Proprietatries to Life by John F. Dunn
  9. Issue 77 - The End of the Hindenburg; Auf Wiedersehen by Justin L. Bacharach
  10. Issue 76 - Aguinaldo: The Rest of the Story by John F. Dunn
  11. Issue 70 - The China Clippers, Part 2 by John F. Dunn


The Best of Stamp News Publishing

  1. Back Issue
  2. Issue 152 - The Pitcairn Islands By Steve Pendleton, by Geir Sør-Reime, John F. Dunn


Baker’s U.S. Classics

  1. Back Issue
  2. Issue 174 - The 1¢ - 90¢ 1861 Issue by Hugh J. & J. David Baker


Classic Great Britain      

  1. Back Issues 
  2. Issue 167 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 34: KGV Profiles and Seahorses (Parts 32 – 33) by David Thompson
  3. Issue 166 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 28, The George V Downey Heads (Parts 28 - 31)  by David Thompson
  4. Issue 165 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 23 The Edward VII Issue (Parts 23 - 27)  by W. Ward  
  5. Issue 160 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Parts 20 - 22 By W. Ward
  6. Issue 159 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 13 - 19 By W. Ward
  7. Issue 158 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 8 - 12 By W. Ward  
  8. Issue 157 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Parts 4 - 7 By W. Ward
  9. Issue 156 - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Parts 1 - 3 By W. Ward


Classic Canada

  1. Back Issues 
  2. Issue 156 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters 86 - 89 by B.W.H. Poole
  3. Issue 154 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters 82 - 85 by B.W.H. Poole
  4. Issue 153 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters 77 - 81 by B.W.H. Poole
  5. Issue 152 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters XXIV, Chapter 72 - 76 by B.W.H. Poole
  6. Issue 151 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters  65 - 70 by B.W.H. Poole
  7. Issue 150 - The Stamps of Canada, Chapters  58 - 64 by B.W.H. Poole
  8. Issue 149 - The Stamps of Canada, Parts 54 - 57 by B.W.H. Poole
  9. Issue 148 - The Stamps of Canada, Parts 49 - 53 by B.W.H. Poole
  10. Issue 147 - The Stamps of Canada, Parts 46 - 48 by B.W.H. Poole
  11. Issue 146 - The Stamps of Canada, Parts 42 - 45 by B.W.H. Poole


United States Reference Manual

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 130 - The Cincinnati Carrier Stamp, Sc. 9LB1 (& More) by John F. Dunn
  3. Issue 128 - The Bluish Paper Printings Of The 1908-9 Regular Issue Fact, Fiction, And Conspiracy by Roy H. White
  4. Issue 126 - The U.S. 1847 Issue and 1875 Reproductions
  5. Issue 125 - The First Postage Stamps Used in the United States


Cinderella Time

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 162 - Curious Poster Labels Advertise Parisian Stamp Dealer by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  3. Issue 125 - The First Postage Stamps Used in the United States
  4. Issue 117 - One Woman Local Post by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  5. Issue 116 - Occussi-Ambeno by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  6. Issue 115 - Correos de la Chimba by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  7. Issue 114 - Ragdolls on Stamps by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  8. Issue 112 - Azerbaijani Forgeries by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  9. Issue 111 - A Swedish Local Post by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  10. Issue 110 - Where is Possession Island? by Christer Brunström, AIJP
  11. Issue 108 - Rübezahl’s Kingdom by Christer Brunström, AIJP

Collections and Holiday Stamps

  1. Current Stamp Collection - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 - November Events on Stamps
     
  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 178 - October Events on Stamps
  5. Issue 177 - September Events on Stamps
  6. Issue 176 - August Events on Stamps
  7. Issue 175 - July Events on Stamps
  8. Issue 174 - June Events on Stamps
  9. Issue 173 - May Events on Stamps
  10. Issue 172 - Famous April Events on Stamps
  11. Issue 171 - Famous March Events on Stamps
  12. Issue 170 - Famous February Events on Stamps
  13. Issue 169 - Famous January Events on Stamps  
  14. Issue 168 - Famous December Events on Stamps  

Fabulous Firsts

  1. Current Issue - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 - Schleswig-Holstein (Nov. 15, 1850) by H. M. Hansen

  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 178 - Saxony (July 1, 1850), by B. W. H. Poole
  5. Issue 177 - Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Oct. 1, 1864) , by B. W. H. Poole
  6. Issue 176 - Lubeck (Jan. 1, 1859) , by B. W. H. Poole
  7. Issue 175 - Wurttemberg, by B. W. H. Poole
  8. Issue 172 - Mecklenburg-Schwerin (July 1, 1856) by B.W.H. Poole
  9. Issue 171 - Great Britain: British Penny Black, May 6,1840 by John F. Dunn
  10. Issue 170 - Hamburg (Jan. 1, 1859) by B. W. H. Poole
  11. Issue 169 - Hanover (December 1, 1850)
  12. Issue 168 - Aland (March 1, 1984)
  13. Issue 167 - German States: Brunswick (January 1, 1852)
  14. Issue 166 - Bremen by B. W. H. Poole

    Landlocked Countries
  1. Current Issues - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 - Iraqi Kurdistan by Geir Sør-Reime

  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 178 - Ethiopia Part 3 by Geir Sør-Reime
  5. Issue 177 - Ethiopia Part 2 by Geir Sør-Reime
  6. Issue 176 - Ethiopia Part 1 by Geir Sør-Reime
  7. Issue 174  - Czech Area, Czechoslovakia, continued by Geir Sør-Reime
  8. Issue 173  - Czechoslovakia, continued by Geir Sør-Reime
  9. Issue 172  - Czechoslovakia . . ., Part 3 by Geir Sør-Reime
  10. Issue 171  - Czechoslovakia . . ., Part 2 by Geir Sør-Reime
  11. Issue 170  - Czechoslovakia . . ., Part 1 by Geir Sør-Reime
  12. Issue 169  - Landlocked States of Columbia:Tolima by Geir Sør-Reime
  13. Issue 168  - Landlocked States of Columbia, Santander by Geir Sør-Reime

Mekeel's & Stamps

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 169 - Source of the Design of the Beacon Air Mail Stamp-Revisited
    by Gregg A. Hokins, Sr.
  3. Issue 163 - The Plimpton Envelope Shapes, by C. H. Mekeel
  4. Issue 163 -  Cold War Philately, by Steve Turechek
  5. Issue 161 - Speaking of Stamps: "New Netherlands, in the West Indies . . ."
    by Herman Herst, Jr.
  6. Issue 160 - You Might Be A "Stamp Nut" If . . . by John L. Leszak
  7. Issue 155 - Viewing the Feldman Austrian Levant Auction by John F. Dunn
  8. Issue 144 - Foreign Post Offices in Palestine, Parts 1 thru 4  by Samuel Ray
  9. Issue 136 - From Mekeel's and Stamp News Online: Philippines Aguinaldo Stamps by J. W. Longnecker
  10. Issue 135 - Studying the Gordon Eubanks 1851-56 One Cent Blues by John F. Dunn
  11. Issue 122 (1 article):
    - Viewing the Rose "Number Ones" by John F. Dunn

Philatelic Events in History

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 173 - The Dockwra Post Paid Mark
  3. Issue 102 - The World Cup—A pictorial history on stamps by John F. Dunn
  4. Issue 101 - British Penny Black, May 6, 1840 by John F. Dunn and
    First US Airmail, May 15, 1918 by J.P.V. Heinmuller
  5. Issue 100 - The Dockwra Post Paid Mark

 

Philatelic Literature - by Dr. Everett L. Parker

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 114 - Philatelic Jamaica
  3. Issue 108 - The 1918 Airmails
  4. Issue 95 - One of the Finest Philatelic Journals
  5. Issue 86 - New From Michel
  6. Issue 84 - New From Gibbons
  7. Issue 82 - Japanese Philately
  8. Issue 58 - Postal Cards, Philamath
  9. Issue 57 - Macao Tops Scott 4 Changes
  10. Issue 56 - Scott Volume 3, Reviewed
  11. Issue 55 - It's Scott Time

 

Postal History Place

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 164 - The George J. Kramer Collection of U.S. Domestic Mails, 1776-1869
  3. Issue 162 - The British Postal Agencies in Puerto Rico by R. B. Preston
  4. Issue 157 - United States Postal History, Part 2 By Seymour Dunbar
  5. Issue 156 - United States Postal History, Part 1 By Seymour Dunbar
  6. Issue 142 - A Primer of English Postal History To the Adhesive Period by Rev'd. William H. Tower
  7. Issue 135 - A Sheaf of War Covers - From the the Collection of Rev'd Willaim H. Tower
  8. Issue 127 - The George J. Kramer Collection of U.S. Domestic Mails, 1776-1869
  9. Issue 126 - The British Postal Agencies in Puerto Rico by R. B. Preston
  10. Issue 117 -  From the Stamp Specialist Gray Book, 1943, Pt. 4


Prexie (Presidential Series) Postal History

  1. Prexies in order by denomination, general Prexie issues are listed on top  
  2. Issue 160 - Perforating the Prexies by Richard Pederson
  3. Issue 179 - 21¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
  4. Issue 171 - The 18¢ Prexie Postal History, Grant Issue by Richard Pederson
  5. Issue 167 - 10¢ Prexie Postal History  by Richard Pederson
  6. Issue 173 - 7¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
  7. Issue 162 - 4 1/2¢ Prexie Postal History  by Richard Pederson
  8. Issue 176 - 4¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
  9. Issue 161 - 1¢ Prexie Postal History  by Richard Pederson
  10. Issue 159 - 1/2¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson

Rarities

  1. Back Issue
  2. Issue -163 - New Rarities Class? Update, by John F. Dunn

Soane's Column

  1. Back Issue
  2. Issue170 - Bicycle Mail, San Francisco, 1894 by George B. Sloane

Society Sampler

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 144 - Seal Collecting As Part of the Hobby by George Painter

Stamp Identification

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 118 - The New York Postmaster Provisional Initials by John F. Dunn
  3. Issue 93 - American Clock Update, A Parcel of Postage Due Varieties
    by Rudy de Mordaigle
  4. Issue 92 - Identifying the One Cent Washington-Franklins
  5. Issue 91 - Identifying the 3¢ Bank Notes
  6. Issue 83 - The 1847 Issue and Reproductions by John F. Dunn
  7. Issue 82 - The Bank Notes Grill (From The U.S. Stamp Reference Manual)
  8. Issue 81 - The Bluish Papers by Roy H. White
  9. Issue 70 - The New York Postmaster Provisional Initials by John F. Dunn
  10. Issue 68 - The 3¢ Pink of 1861 by John F. Dunn
  11. Issue 58 - The New York Postmaster Provisionals Initials

 

Stamp Market Tips

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 83 - STAMPS Magazine, May 5, 1979 by John G. Ross
    with updates by John F. Dunn
  3. Issue 81 - STAMPS Magazine, April 7, 1979 by John G. Ross
    with updates by John F. Dunn

Stamp Specialist

  1. Current Issues - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 - Victorian Canada: Part 9 – Imperial Penny Postage By Ed Richardson

  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 178 -
    Victorian Canada, Part 8 – Leafs, Numerals     by Ed Richardson

    Designs for U.S. Stamps by Paul F. Berdanier

  5. Issue 177 -
    Victorian Canada, The 1897 Jubilees     by Ed Richardson
    The Development of Rotary Press Printing    , by Max G. Johl
    The 6¢ Lincoln—1879-1882 Printings and Proofs     by George C. Hahn
  6. Issue 176 - Victorian Canada–Part 6–The Small Queens by Ed Richardson
  7. Issue 175 -

    The 6¢ Lincoln–1873 Issue and 1875 Special Printing, Part 4 by George C. Hahm
    Trans-Atlantic Mails, by Major F. W. Staff

  8. Issue 173 - The 6-Cent Lincoln Bank Note Issues, Pt. 3 By George C. Hahn
  9. Issue 172 - Victorian Canada: The 1859 Large Queens/Dominion Issue, Part 5, by Ed Richardson
  10. Issue 172 - The U.S. 6¢ Bank Note Issues, Postage Rates, Part 2 by George C. Hahn
  11. Issue 171 - Victorian Canada - The 1859 Cents Issue by Ed Richardson
  12. Issue 171 - The U.S. 6¢ Lincoln Bank Note Issues, Part 1 by George C. Hahn

Tariffs

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 174 -
    Overview by John Dunn
    Historic Lundy, by Christer Brunström
    Redonda, by Geir Sør-Reime

 

Articles are from . . . U. S. Stamp News Magazine

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 137 - Neopost Report: USPS Error Online Proofs by John Ryskamp
  3. Issue 136 - From U.S. Stamp News: Viewing the Drews Prevention Essays by John F. Dunn
  4. Issue 129 - The China Clippers by John F. Dunn
  5. Issue 124 - Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863 by John F. Dunn
  6. Issue 122 - Colt's Patent Fire Arms by Anthony Fandino
  7. Issue 121 - 4A9E8Ff by Jeremy A. Lifsey
  8. Issue 120 (2 articles) -
    -High Flying Fourth Bureaus Introduction, Fractional and Low Values (1/2¢-4¢)
    -A Letter from Santa Claus, Ind.
  9. Issue 119 (3 articles) -
    -Viewing the Wagshal One-Cent Blues
    -Was Farley Treated Fairly?
    Viewing The Kuphal Carriers and Locals
  10. Issue 118 (2 articles) -
    -"I was chisled out of my place." by Anthony Fandino
    -A Criss-Cross Card and a Miserable Failure by A. N Glennon


Viewing Collections

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 175 - Viewing the Siegel Vaquero Postal History Collections, by John Dunn
  3. Issue 168 - Viewing the Flaat Collection of Antarctica By John F. Dunn
  4. Issue 165 - Viewing the Antizzo Revenue Stamped Paper by John F. Dunn
  5. Issue 165 - Viewing the Myerson Pioneer Flights by John F. Dunn
  6. Issue 159 - Viewing the Myerson Pioneer Flights by John F. Dunn
  7. Issue 157 - Viewing The Vaquero Eclectics Collection by John F. Dunn
  8. Issue 153 - The Beautiful Tran-Mississippis by John F. Dunn
  9. Issue 151 - Viewing the Islander South America Collection by John F. Dunn
  10. Issue 148 - Viewing United States Postal History by John F. Dunn
  11. Issue 135 - Viewing Newspapers and Periodicals by John F. Dunn

 

World of Stamps

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 175 - Island Communities: Reunion By Geir Sør-Reime
  3. Issue 174 - Greenland: Inuit, Norse, Danish and U.S. Heritage By Geir Sør-Reime
  4. Issue 173 - Ukraine’s Complicated History By Geir Sør-Reime
  5. Issue 139 - Island Communities: Turkish Cyprus by Geir Sør-Reime  
  6. Issue 137 - Ukraine War—The Russian Break-away States in the Donbass Area by Geir Sør-Reime
  7. Issue 136 - New Zealand (Aotearoa), Part 1 & Part 2 by Geir Sør-Reime  
  8. Issue 135 - Ukraine's Complicated History by Geir Sør-Reime
  9. Issue 135 - Crimea by Geir Sør-Reime  
  10. Issue 134 - Occussi-Ambeno by Geir Sør-Reime
  11. Issue 134 - Rome, The Eternal City by Geir Sør-Reime  

 

World of Topicals

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 163 - The Olympics, Part 1, 1896 - 1948
  3. Issue 163 - The Olympics, Part 2, 1896 - 1948
  4. Issue 163 - The Olympics, Part 3, 1896 - 1948
  5. Issue 117 - The Europa Topical by John F. Dunn
  6. Issue 115 -The Issues of the United States Allied Military Government in World War II
    By John F. Dunn
  7. Issue 114 - Inventions on Stamps by John F. Dunn
  8. Issue 110 - The French Red Cross Stamps by John H. Tanner
  9. Issue 109 - Astronomy In Stamps by John H. Tanner
  10. Issue 108 - Printing History on Stamps by George E. Pettengill
  11. Issue 107 - Circus Stamps of the World by John F. Dunn

 

Yesterday in Mekeel's

  1. Current Issue - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 - The New Haven Provisional

  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 178 - A Plate Variety of the 5 Cent Walloon by E. J. Newcomer
  5. Issue 175 - The Five Cent U.S. Error, by R. McP. Cabeen
  6. Issue 174 - 100 Years Ago, in Mekeel’s: Postage Stamps of the Confederate States
  7. Issue 173 - 100 Years Ago, in Mekeel’s: Stamps Cut in Half Legally Used
  8. Issue 166 - S.C.A.D.T.A. Colombo-German Association of Aerial Transportation by Hermann Focke
  9. Issue 161 - George Washington's Big Day by Thomas W. Bradley
  10. Issue 158 - Notes on Perforations of the U.S. Stamps of 1857-'60 by Elliott Perry
  11. Issue 157 - The U.S. One Cent 1861 Issue, Part IV by E. Tudor Gross
  12. Issue 156 - The U.S. One Cent 1861 Issue, Part III by E. Tudor Gross
  13. Issue 156 -  Early Stamps of Brazil by Philip H. Ward, Jr.
  14. Issue 155 - The United States 1861 One Cent Blues, Part 2 by E. Tudor Gross

Yesterday in Stamp News Online (SNO)

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 141 - The Russian Zemstvos Issues by Colonel Hans Lagerloef

Yesterday in STAMPS

  1. Back Issues
  2. Issue 167 - The Siege of Paris by Carl T. Boettger
  3. Issue 164 - Postage Stamp Restoration by Robert Fellows
  4. Issue 160 - Sloane's Column: U.S. Playing Cards Stamps by George B. Sloane
  5. Issue 155 - A Civil War Treasure House by Herman Herst, Jr.
  6. Issue 154 - The Swiss Hotel Posts by George W. Caldwell
  7. Issue 152 - Patented Means to Prevent Re-Use of Stamps by Vinton E. Sisson
  8. Issue 150 - Some Notes on Foreign Mail Rates by Hugh J. & J. David Baker
  9. Issue 149 - California Ocean Mails, 1851-55 by A. R. Rowell
  10. Issue 148 - Poland in World War II (3 articles), Poland Lives by M. E. Steczynski
  11. Issue 146 - Speaking of Stamps: Demonetized 1847 Issue by Herman Herst, Jr.

 

Yesterday in U. S. Stamps & Postal History

  1. Back Issues 
  2. Issue 171 - Montgomery Blair: Lincoln's Postmaster General by Donald L. Evans
  3. Issue 170 - A Brief History of U.S. Postal Stationery by Bill Lehr
  4. Issue 149 - The Making of a Stamp, Then and Now by Don L. Evans, Associate Editor
  5. Issue 148 - The Story of America's Inverted Airmail
  6. Issue 146 - The Pony Express by George Corney
  7. Issue 145 - The Issues of the U.S. Allied Military Government in World War II Harry W. Wilcke M.D.
  8. Issue 142 - Bring In The Marines! by George Corney
  9. Issue 141 - U.S. Essays, The "Also Rans" of U. S. Stamp Collecting
    by Barbara R. Mueller

Yesterday in U. S. Stamp News

  1. Current Issue - Friday, November 7, 2025
  2. Issue 179 -
    21 Cent Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
    Modern U.S. Varieties: Mail Service? Perforation Types And Taggant Behavior by Rudy de Mordaigle
  3. Back Issues
  4. Issue 176 -
    4¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
    Dedicated Relief Worker or Con Man? by William H. Waggoner
  5. Issue 173 - Gutter Snipes and Beyond by Louis E. Repeta
  6. Issue 173 - 7¢ Prexie Postal History by Richard Pederson
  7. Issue 172 - Western Postal History by Hugh J. & J. David Baker & Pony Covers by John F. Dunn
  8. Issue 172 - Modern Varieties: More on the 2024 Flags Issue and a Couple of Animals in Trees, by Rudy de Mordaigle
  9. Issue 171 - The 18¢ Prexie Postal History, Grant Issue by Richard Pederson
  10. Issue 170 - High Flying Fourth Bureaus by Steve Turechek
  11. Issue 168 - The Stickney Press Precancels and Overprints Louis E. Repeta
  12. Issue 167 - The Prexie Usages: The 10¢ Prexie Postal History, Scott 815 by Richard Pederson
  13. Issue 164 - The First Duck Stamp Designer by Brian C. Baur

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