The Ass’s JawboneSeptember 23, 2023A stamp from Belize, Scott #1017 issued November 19, 1993, features an accordion player in the center, surrounded by other musicians playing maracas, […READ MORE]
Stamp of ApprovalSeptember 8, 2023By Hadley Mitchell and John Martin In September 1929, a man from New York selling office supplies went into the Andres Co. department store in […READ MORE]
Recap of the Great American Stamp ShowSeptember 5, 2023If you weren’t able to join us in Cleveland for GASS 2023, don’t worry — here is what you missed! Photo Album: […READ MORE]
One of a kind Topicals: MONOPOLYAugust 28, 2023Monopoly-by-Pat-MorganDownload […READ MORE]
First Day of Issue Ceremony: Thinking of YouAugust 11, 2023Greater Mound City Stamp Club member, 14-year-old Christina Esbeck was recently a speaker at the USPS First Day of Issue Ceremony for the Thinking of […READ MORE]
Beyond the Perf – Christina EsbeckJuly 27, 2023Greater Mound City Stamp Club’s Christina Esbeck is highlighted in the USPS Philatelic (2023/Volume 28/Quarter 3, pg. 49) based on her Cupcake […READ MORE]
Member Spotlight: Silas ErnstJuly 24, 2023Silas Ernst, the Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions Fellow, is from Pacific, Missouri. The discovery of an Utz potato chip can full of used stamps and covers in his grandmother’s attic ignited Silas’ interest in stamp collecting. […READ MORE]
Tristan Da CunhaJune 20, 2023By: John Marquardt […READ MORE]
Verna MannMay 22, 2023FIRST-DAYS-VERNA-MANN-January-February-2023Download […READ MORE]
USPS Rate Increase: July 9th 2023April 29, 2023On April 10th 2023, the United States Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) of mailing services price changes […READ MORE]
ATA: 2023 My One-Page ExhibitApril 24, 2023If you weren’t aware the ATA has for the past 2 years held a One-Page online exhibit event. I submitted my article previously published in the […READ MORE]
The Language of StampsApril 23, 2023By: John Deutch Have you ever heard of the “language of stamps?” Sometimes a particular stamp will seem to “speak to […READ MORE]
My Topic – Pat Morgan: Eclectic PhilatelyMarch 15, 2023This article was published in Topical Time, the official magazine of the American Topical Association, March-April 2023, Volume 75, Number 2, Whole […READ MORE]
Secret of Gen. Casimir PulaskiFebruary 26, 2023Casimir-Pulaksi-by-Pat-MorganDownload […READ MORE]
Timely Topicals: TornadoesJanuary 25, 2023So here is a quick, maybe not entirely complete, assessment of Tornados on Postage Stamps. The USPS has only put one tornado on a US postage stamp. That stamp was issued on October 4, 2004, Cloudscapes, Scott #3878. The stamp was one of 15 different images issued on this sheet of self-adhesive stamps. […READ MORE]
End of an Era: 2nd Saturday Stamp BourseJanuary 21, 2023End-of-an-EraDownload […READ MORE]
One of a Kind Topicals: PEZNovember 28, 2022There has only been a single Postage Stamp ever issued depicting PEZ candy, […READ MORE]- 2021 GMCSC Holiday PartyDecember 5, 2021A great time was had by all!! […READ MORE]
Tom Minor: 2021 Prexie AwardDecember 5, 2021December 2nd, 2021, GMCSC President, Guy Gasser, announced that Tom Minor would be the 2021 recipient of the Greater Mound City Stamp Clubs Prexie […READ MORE]
Cachetmaker: Tom MuellerDecember 1, 2021In the November – December 2021 – No. 461 of First Days (the Journal of the American First Day Cover Society) an article profiling […READ MORE]