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#154 - Star Wars Stamps - also a continuation of last weeks discussion on Cancel Collecting

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?”.

#153. Cancellation - to the horror of many, we are not canceled - We discuss Cancels.

Welcome to episode #153. Cancellations. We are not being canceled, our mail is…… That is our letters are having postmarks put on them and that is what we will be discussing, the glamorous and exciting world of cancel collecting. (4 minute marker)

 

Enjoy.

#152 – Our Christmas Extravaganza. We have a lot of extravaganzas, don’t we?

Welcome to episode #152 – Our Christmas Extravaganza.  We have a lot of extravaganzas, don’t we?

 

This week we discuss Christmas Stamps – are you shocked and amazed? (3 minute marker).

We also discuss the announcement of the new US postage stamps announced for 2018.  We have the stamp list and as always, opinions on the designs, art and subjects (15 minute marker)

 Enjoy.

#151 - National Parks - Not the Farly Issue but other stamps that you may not know about.

Welcome to episode #151. This week we discuss the National Park stamps. Not the Farley issue but the stamps you need when you go to a national park. These include:

That Big Silver Airstream Trailer – Yup there is a stamp for that (Trailer stamps – 6 minute marker)

The Boat you want to float around in – Yup there is a stamp for that (12 minute marker)

Entry Fee? – There is a stamp for that (19 minute marker)

Want to go hunting – Yup (29 minute marker)

Want to really hunt? Like with a machine gun? – Tax stamp for that also (38 minute marker

#150 - You want stamp facts? We got stamp facts!

Welcome to Episode 150.  This week we have stamp facts.  Some aren’t so much facts as interesting tidbits (ok let’s just say tidbits – interesting may be stretching it).  So sit back and enjoy. (3 minute marker)

 Also – we are serious, if you know of a United States stamp that doesn’t have the name of the country on it, please post it on Facebook.  We are really interested to see if one exists.

#149 - Rebroadcast - Our Interview with Chad Snee.- Happy Thanksgiving

Episode #149 - Happy Thanksgiving.  With everyone off to visit family it we couldnt do a recording this week so we reached deep into the archive.  This is episode #17 with Chad Snee.  Many of you cant access these old episodes and this one was great so we are rebroadcasting it.

#148 - Life got us pretty hard - A rebroadcast of our Bass Reeves episode

Episode 148 - Life got Caj and Scott pretty bad BUT we have this - it is a rebroadcast of my perosnal favorite.  The episode on Bass Reeves.  Enjoy

#147 - Chicagopex is coming on November 17th - Not going is its own punishment

Welcome to Episode #147.  We are plugging ChicagoPex coming up on the November 17th weekend at the Itasca Westin.  Google ChicagoPex for all the info.  (I know - not Chicago, how depressing).  (Minute Marker 5)

Enjoy.

#146 - The (not very) Bloody revolution of the Isle of SARK, fake stamps and a wish list for Stamp Shows

Welcome to Episode #146. Today we talk about the small island of SARK which is in the Guernsey Islands of Britain. Look on a stamp of Guernsey with a map and Sark will be the small island at the bottom, just north of France. So why talk about it? Well this is the last feudal holding in the British Empire and it ended in just 2007. (Minute market 3)

 We also received a nice reference lot from Tony (Check his stuff on eBay at BarneysStamps) – Fake coils and Kansas Nebraska overprints – Thank you Tony (Minute marker 11)

 Lastly we discuss stamp shows and if we had a magic wand.

#145 - The different types of collectors and the different interests of collecting stamps.

Welcome to episode #145. This week we talk about the various types of stamp collectors. Stamp collecting is a huge topic with many different collecting interests. From the classic collector to the historian who wants a relic of history, to the investor (AND YES, we do not shirk away from talking about investing here) stamp collecting offers such a range of interests that it will appeal to anyone.

 Week we delve into the different types (we call the classes) of stamp collectors. (3 minute marker).

 Our guests in this are Rich Specter and Ray Liebermann.

 Ray is also the editor of the on-line newsletter 100J. To subscribe just send an email to ray@100j-grading-newsletter.com