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Background Brief:
Life-long collector and 40-year member of the American Philatelic Society [APS]. Specializing mostly in United States pre-1940 period stamps, including selected back-of-the-book issues. Successfully served as a Bourse Dealer in the seventies and early eighties while purchasing several advanced stamp collections and estate accumulations to acquire saleable material.
By the mid-eighties and following the rapid decline of philatelic marketplace speculation, initiated disposition of principal philatelic holdings via major auctions, and subsequently began offering any remaining popular United States sets and selected classic single stamps via the APS Sales Division mail circuits. This latter activity continued until the APS established its on-line StampStore during the 2000-2001 timeframe.
APS StampStore:
As of early 2008, had posted a cumulative nearly two-million dollars worth of stamp retail value [representing over twenty thousand lots] on the StampStore site, and have subsequently continued the process of annually submitting virtually thousands of competively-priced lots for interactive on-line sales availability to participating APS members.
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SECIALIZING IN SEVERAL CATEGORIES OF PHILATELIC MATERIAL. THESE CATEGORIES INCLUDE:
- SCARCER US 19TH CENTURY OFF-COVER FANCY CANCELS--MANY WITH EXPERTIZATION CERTIFICATES & VALIDATING POST MARKS [ON PIECE]. SEVERAL TYPES OF NEW YORK FOREIGN MAIL [NYFM] EXAMPLES OFFERED WHEN AVAILABLE.
- US CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS--USED AND UNUSED
- US 19TH CENTURY SINGLES & SETS--USED AND UNUSED
- US 20TH CENTURY SINGLES & SETS--USED AND UNUSED
- US POSTAL HISTORY, INCLUDING SPECIAL EVENT & FIRST DAY COVERS [FDCs] PLUS RARE ASSEMBLAGES OF HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA & COVERS CELEBRATING THE SPACE EXPLORATION SHUTTLE PROGRAM
- US AIRMAILS, FEDERAL & STATE "DUCK STAMPS," REVENUE ISSUES, AND OTHER BACK-OF-BOOK MATERIAL PLUS ERRORS-FREAKS-ODDITIES [EFOs]
- US 19TH CENTURY COVERS, INCLUDING LOCAL DELIVERY AND WESTERN EXPRESS COVERS SUCH AS WELLS FARGO IMPRINTED ENVELOPES WITH ASCC-LISTED MARKINGS AND FANCY CANCELS.
- WORLD-WIDE SELECTIONS--USED AND UNUSED--SINGLES, SETS & KEYS, FULL SETS AND INVESTMENT OR WHOLESALE ACCUMULATIONS.
- US STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTERS [SFLs] COVERS AND STAMPLESS ENVELOPES.
- GENERAL PHILATELIC-RELATED INVESTMENT/WHOLESALE LOTS, INCLUDING SINGLE-COUNTRY SETS, GROUPS, COLLECTIONS & ACCUMULATIONS.
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