Alfredo Frolich received the grand award and large gold for his multi-frame exhibit titled “United States of Colombia 1868-1881.”

The stamps feature close-up photographs of dahlias that were taken by Denise Ippolito. Greg Breeding served as both art director and designer.

Lazaroff replaces Yamil Kouri, who will continue as the exhibition’s president.

The stamps feature powwow dancers performing the Crow Hop, Women’s Traditional, Women’s Fancy Shawl and Men’s Hoop.

Although the market for waterfowl hunting permit stamps (known to collectors as duck stamps) is not as hot as it once was, they are still popular with many collectors.

Linn’s U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll, which began in 1948, is intended as an entertaining and fun way for readers to voice their opinions about the U.S. stamp program.

The United States Postal Service issues a constant stream of stamps that they expect will interest the public, hopefully turning noncollectors into collectors.

Having these numbers handy will allow you to easily locate these stamps in the Scott catalogs and learn about their production and values.

The annual Westpex stamp show will take place April 25-27 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Hotel, 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, Calif., near San Francisco.

On March 27, the board of the American Philatelic Society met virtually to give an update on the organization. In attendance were approximately 60 people, in addition to the APS board and staff.

The show will be held May 23-25 at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds Event Center in Aurora, Colo.

After the ceremony guests lined up to get autographs from all of the participants. There was a separate table for retail sales of the stamps and covers.

The pane of 15 includes watercolor paintings featuring scenes of five battlefields appearing beside more recent photographs of the historic sites.

The two additional hotels are located close to restaurants and attractions in the greater Boston suburbs.

A bourse (sales area) of about 25 dealers will offer stamps, covers and postal history from the United States and worldwide, and the show will feature more than 150 frames of competitive exhibits.

The Battlefields of the American Revolution proof set is similar to a set of proof panes offered to collectors in 2013 in conjunction with the Jenny Invert pane of six $2 stamps.

Okpex will feature a bourse (sales area) of up to 15 dealers, and the United States Postal Service will have a booth at the show.

For new collectors of all ages, the show will have a table with a Wilkinsburg Stamp Club member to assist novices with the basics of stamp collecting.

Mystic’s contest asks readers to pick the greatest United States stamps using a bracket format similar to the one used for March Madness.

Following the 1986 space shuttle disaster, there was considerable pressure on the United States Postal Service to issue a stamp in honor of the crew.