ISSUE 186 - June 5, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
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Viewing Collections: A Study of the First Postmaster General
by John F. Dunn
Last June Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries conducted a single-owner auction of the Benjamin Franklin Bailar Collection of what Bailar—himself a former U.S. Postmaster General—described as “Basically,…anything that had Benjamin Franklin’s name or likeness and an interesting story.”
Not that the collection and the auction consisted of just “anything.” For example, the first lot offered was this . . .
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