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Secret marks on U.S. Early stamps. Helps to figure out when it was made  and the Scott number.

    Hi,
Hi, Barb (Newbie KSC Member) here, if you are a member of the KSC and collect stamps issued for CAPEX events I have 4 stamps issued for CAPEX '87, held in Toronto, from Cambodia, then known as R.P. Kampuchea, (hence listing these under Asia). I'll bring them to the Oct 9th KSC meeting. If anyone would like them please see me.

Happy collecting to all!

CSS Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia Robert E Lee Iron clad  ship used in the 1861 civil war cover for sale. With the Captains name on it and the Shipps name on the end

A British intelligence officer and a double agent for the former Soviet Union. In 1963 it was revealed he was a member of the Cambridge Five -- a spy ring during WW2 and in the early years of the Cold War. Philby lived in Moscow until his death in 1988.

He was featured on a stamp issued by the USSR in 1990.

   

Stamp:
USSR - Soviet Agents Series
Kim Philby (1912-1988)
Issued on November 29, 1990
5k
Sc. 5948

Stamps issued by China (PRC) in 1952 on the second anniversary of their entering the Korean War on the side of the North. On October 19, 1950, about 260,000 PRC troops had crossed the Yalu River and joined combat. 

The stamps have a narrative flow. First, Chinese Volunteers on the march to Korea.

Stamp:
China - 2nd Anniversary of Korea Volunteers
Volunteers on the March
Issued on October 25, 1952
$800, Blue-green
Sc. 171 [PRC number (90) 1952]

   

Supplies being loaded for the volunteers. The banner being held up reads,"Support the front line".

Stamp:
Loading Supplies
Issued on October 25, 1952
$800, Vermillion
Sc. 172 [PRC number (91) 1952]

   

Arriving in Korea and joining the battle.

Stamp:
Volunteers Attacking Across River
Issued on October 25, 1952
$800, Violet
Sc. 173 [PRC number (92) 1952]

   

Meet up with North Korean troops.

Stamp
Meeting of Chinese and Korean troops
Issued on October 25, 1952
$800, Lake Brown
Sc. 174 [PRC number (93) 1952]

   

Between October 1, 1962 and May 1, 1963, Western New Guinea was administered by the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA) under the terms of the New York Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia. This was the first time that the UN assumed direct responsibility for a territory. The idea was that UNTEA would become the governing authority for the territory during the period between its status as a colony of the Netherlands and it's becoming a province of Indonesia. A province initially known as West Irian.

UNTEA issued 19 postage stamps during the transition ... overprints on Netherlands New Guinea stamps.

Pakistan, together with the US and Canada provided Peacekeeping services during the transition. Pakistan provided 1,500 troops and the US and Canada provided a total of 76 air force personnel.

Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp.

   

Stamp:
Pakistan - UN Force in West Irian
Issued on February 15, 1963
Red overprint U.N. FORCE W. IRIAN on Sc. 135a Shalimar Gardens
13p, Violet
Sc. 174

Cook Islands Airmail Paid 25 Official Rarotonga Paid in red and Cook islands in Black Philatelic Bureau Post Office. To Guelph Ontario

A Letter from Stanley Ashbrook To the great August Dietz about his book on Confederate covers He wrote. He plated all of the U.S. earliest stamps. I owned this letter sent it to Wikipedia and Auctioned it off. Stanley Bryan Ashbrook - Wikipedia

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Another thing I collect Autographed Baseballs.