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ISSUE 159 - March 1, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine

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Greetings.

This month's Landlocked country is Azerbaijan, Part 2. We ran Part 1 in our January issue and I somehow overlooked there was a Part 2 still to be run when I ran Bhopal last month. Fortunately, Geir brought that to my attention, so here I correct that oversight.

Continuing our Classic Great Britain series, we continue the complicated Surface Printed issues with their papers, shades, watermarks and other varieties; and our Fabulous Firsts coverage brings us another German State, Bavaria.

On the U.S. side, we have Part 2 of "40 Years of U.S. Special Deliveries." As with Part One, the images in the original, Stamp Specialist, 1940 article are not that good, but there are plenty of more recent images I was able to locate and add as a Supplement to the article.

We also have a "Viewing" of the Robert A. Siegel Galleries 2018 auction of the James Myerson Collection of Pioneer Flight Mail, 1910-1916. As always the content is more important than the 2018 realizations, but they do give you some relative readings. Finally, this goes into the "You don't know what you are missing" category. In no particular order Prexie postal history specialist Richard Pederson is bringing U.S. Stamp News readers extensive displays of usages, complete with details on the rates each value met. I bring you here the Half-Cent value, along with an old companion article by Clyde Jennings. If you decide to subscribe to USSN I will email you the pdfs of the four or so other values Richard has already covered.

Enjoy!

John F. Dunn, Publisher

Table of Contents, Issue 159
March 2024


  1. Landlocked Countries: Azerbaijan, Part 2
  2. Classic Great Britain: The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Parts 13 - 19
  3. Fabulous Firsts: Bavaria
  4. The Stamp Specialist:  40 Years of Special Delivery Stamps
  5. Viewing Collections: Viewing the Myerson Pioneer Flights  
  6. Yesterday in U. S. Stamp News: 1/2¢ Prexie Postal History
  7. Stamp Collection: Famous March Events on Stamps

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