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“RW13a” is a Chemically Induced Color Changeling

After the Federal Home Page was launched, we received a couple of emails from collectors asking: “Why was “RW13a” not listed in the federal catalog?” This question will answered in today’s blog. One of the harsh realities all hobbies face is that there tends to be a few unpleasant truths interwoven into the culture. While…

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Crow Creek Resumes Stamp Program

by David R. Torre, ARA   32.7MB   Introduction In 1989, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe issued the first pictorial Indian Reservation fish and game stamps in the United States. The stamps featured black and white photographs of deer, pheasants, prairie dogs and geese with red serial numbers (see Figure 1). The Tribe issued similar stamps…

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Happy New Year and Welcome to Killer Nine

We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and much success in 2017! Last year was huge for our hobby, with the Bill Webster Auction in March, the waterfowlstampsandmore.com launch in April, New York 2016 in May and The Million Dollar Duck documentary film release in September. We have seen many signs of…

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Proofs and Essays

All Categories Articles Blog Posts Catalogs Exhibits Federal Galleries Hall of Fame Killer Marketplace Society Uncategorized Wanted Proofs and Essays After the artwork was either selected by the committee or chosen by the judges, it was turned over to a stamp designer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The stamp designer takes the original art…

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Killer Two

All CategoriesArticlesBlog PostsCatalogsExhibitsFederalGalleriesHall of FameKillerMarketplaceSocietyUncategorizedWanted Killer One Killer Two Killer Three Killer Four Killer Five Killer Six Killer Seven Killer Eight Killer Nine Killer Ten Killer Eleven Killer Twelve Killer Thirteen Killer Two 1958 Veteran’s Wife Unused Strip of Three Type I 1956-57 Tennessee Big Game Civil War Veteran 1917 Oregon License to Hunt and…

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Killer Two Copy

All CategoriesArticlesBlog PostsCatalogsExhibitsFederalGalleriesHall of FameKillerMarketplaceSocietyUncategorizedWanted Killer One Killer Two Killer Three Killer Four Killer Five Killer Six Killer Seven Killer Eight Killer Nine Killer Ten Killer Eleven Killer Twelve Killer Thirteen Killer Two Copy 1958 Veteran’s Wife Unused Strip of Three Type I 1956-57 Tennessee Big Game Civil War Veteran 1917 Oregon License to Hunt…

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Collecting Used Federal Duck Stamps – Part One

In the last post, we saw one approach to collecting federal duck stamps, in mint graded condition. Thanks again, to Bob Budesa for sharing his fabulous collection of jumbo stamps with all of us. Today we begin a new “show and tell series” that focuses on the opposite end of the duck stamp spectrum –…

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Welcome to Gallery Ten – Part Two

As the introductory post for Gallery Ten ended up being rather lengthy and included a large number of high resolution scans, we decided it would be best divided into two parts to facilitate loading on your device. In part two, we shall provide background information and discuss the stamps and licenses found in the remaining (four)…

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Remembering Harry Foglietta – Part Ten

In the series finale on Harry Foglietta and his favorite Hawaiian postcard collecting interests, we shall look at the advertising materials produced for the 1917 Mid Pacific Carnival. This was the last year a grandiose Carnival took place and the last time the Hawaii Promotion Committee employed an extensive advertising campaign to promote it. As…

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