Episodes
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episode #196 - Sorry I got to this one a little late. Today we are discussing the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, The United States leaving the Universal Postal Union, and a discussion on the Pan-American Expositions postal showcase and the stamps that were issued by the United States. We also discuss a new Canadian Issue and upcoming stamp shows. Enjoy.
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episoe #194 - Today we are discussing national stamp collecting month, a post office break-in in Alabama, the difficulties of early zip code adoption, and the APS' special interest page. Also there is a give away for the remainder of this month in clebration of National stamp collecting month. Enjoy.
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Episode #193 - Special Delivery, Royal Mail's stock drop, and Patent Cancels
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episoe #193 - Today we are discussing special delivery, a 24% drop in stock price for Royal Mail, patent cancels and more. Enjoy.
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Episode #190 - Mao Zedong, Missing Inverted Jenny found, and Plate Blocks
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episode #190 - Today we are discussing Mao Zedong and the recently discovered C3a "Inverted Jenny" discovered in a Chicago area bank vault. We will also discuss plate numbers and plate blocks and new issues including both the United States and Canada's first responder stamps, and the final release of the United Kingdom's World War I centenary issue. Enjoy
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episode #189 - Today we will be discussing National Neither Rain nor Shine Day, A secret stamp society that got some steel from the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and younger collectors. We also discuss starting a stamp collection at low cost and upcoming shows. Enjoy.
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Episode #188 - Womens Right to Vote, Franking, President Trump takes on Postal Rates
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today Episode #188 - Today we will be discussing womens right to vote, Franking, and President Trump taking on postal rates. Also a follow up on the Canada e-commerce contest, other postal related news, upcoming shows, new issues and a Hot Wheels release update.
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Welcome to episode #186. Today we do a wrap-up of the APS convention in Columbus Georgia which ended last Sunday. Scott and Mark were there, and they share their observations about the first day ceremony for the Dragon stamps as well as the market place and other tidbits. (1-minute marker).
As a follow-up we also went to and will discuss the first day ceremony for the Magic stamps (10-minutee marker).
We discuss the new issue coming from the Royal Mail for the “Old Vic” which is a 200-year-old theater in London and the subjects are many movie stars – who also were theater stars – GREAT for a topical collector. We then discuss another topical of BEES on stamps. (15 ½-minute marker).
Lastly, we discuss how to mail your stamps. (26-minute marker)
Thursday Jan 04, 2018
Thursday Jan 04, 2018
Welcome to episode #154. With the Last Jedi having just come out, we had to discuss Star Wars stamps. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers so if you haven’t seen the movie – you will not have it spoiled for you. We also discuss the new Game of Thrones stamp set coming out because there are Dragons! (13 minute marker).
After that, we have Jim Forte who is one of the leading dealers in postal history in the country. He continues the discussion we had last week on Cancel Collecting and has some fantastic insights (29 minute marker).
Before we “officially” started the podcast, Jim also shared his experience with selling stamps on Amazon, Hipstamps and eBay as well as DelCamp and his own web site PostalHistory.com. It was so good I didn’t cut it down… as you will see when Dawn asks “when is the podcast starting?”.
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Welcome to Stamp Show Here Today, Episode #144. Our SESCAL Spectacular. Yes, here in Ontario California we visited the show and it was truly awesome. Thank you to the listeners who stopped by and said HI and also to all on Facebook who gave us a shout-out but couldn’t come.
We have 2 outstanding exhibiters who showed us some of their prize possessions. The first is Michael Mahler who showed us some awesome NEVADA stamp items with loads of back story and history. True relics of history (3 minute marker)
We also had Les Lampher show us some of his items including a Chester Arthur cover as well as a stranded artic expedition cover and a cover from the San Francisco fire. Again, true relics of history (13 minute marker)
We then discuss some of the table sales and how the dealers here at SESCAL sell stuff. (20 minute marker).
IMPORTANT!!!!! All the items discussed can be seen on the Stamp Show Here Today Facebook page.
Enjoy
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Episode #141. This week we are celebrating the TV Game Show Jeopardy
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Welcome to Episode #141. This week we are celebrating the TV Game Show Jeopardy which saw most fitting to have a category on stamp collecting. Can you answer the questions? (minute marker 1 – yup from the very beginning).
Thank you to Bill Hontos for joining us and also a big thank you to Linn's Stamp News for the information in this podcast.