All Blog Posts Tagged 'stamps' (3)

When I used to live in Chicago, they'd say there were two seasons: Winter and July 12. Well, welcome to summer Chicagoans. And welcome all to another great month on the ephemera blog. I have many special summer blog posts scheduled. One in particular that I'm very excited about is my upcoming interview post with the Collections Manager at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. We're going to be talking about the new FDR exhibit. But… Continue

Again, in my never ending wanderings around the Internet, I have come across yet another collectible item that I never knew of, let alone knew it was collectible.

International Reply Coupons per Wikipedia:

An International Reply Coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps repr

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This is my first blog post since becoming a member of T.E.N. I hope to add on a regular basis blog entries of interesting piece(s) of ephemera that I have in my collection, for sale or just recently purchased. So to get things rolling...

At a recent estate sale, I purchased for only $2.00 a package that contained 5 S&H Green Stamp books, 3 Top Value Books, 1 MacDonald Plaid Stamp Saver Book and another Top Value Stamp Book. All but the last book were filled with their respectiv

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