Duck stamp event at Bass Pro

The First Day of Sale ceremony for the 2007-08 Federal Duck Stamp will be held at 9 a.m. Friday at Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World's boat showroom.

For the first time in its history, the First Day of Sale event will be held outside of Washington, D.C.

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Lennon’s ‘last’ piano, stamps up for sale

A New York recording studio piano believed to have been played by John Lennon just hours before he was shot dead in 1980 is being sold for $375,000, the dealer handling the sale said.

The piano belonged to New Yorks Record Plant Studios and Lennon would use it to compose new material and record songs, according to the seller, Moments In Time, a memorabilia specialist located just north of New York City. According to the seller, Lennon fell in love with the upright grand pianos nostalgic sound and had it moved to whichever studio he was using. He last played it on December 8, 1980 the day he was gunned down in New York. The piano comes with a document signed by former Record Plant sound engineer Jack Douglas, who says the piano was also played by Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend from The Who and Don McLean during sessions for the hit song American Pie.

LENNON'S STAMPS ON DISPLAY

JOHN LENNON's childhood stamp collection will be exhibited for the first time in Europe today (01Jun07). The former Beatle began his hobby at the age of 10, collecting 550 stamps from several countries including India, the United States and New Zealand. The collection was bought by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington in 2005, who have released it to the Stockholm Postal Museum in Sweden. Linda Edquist, curator at the Washington museum, says, "It is an interesting and important collection as it shows that so many interesting people collect stamps. "A goal with the purchase was to encourage stamp collecting and to show people that it can be cool to collect stamps." The exhibition, which also features Lennon memorabilia sent in by fans, art works and a pair of spectacles, will be on display until 7 October (07).

Dave Henderson: First duck stamps available June 22 at Bass Pro Shops

The first day that 2007 Federal Migratory Bird Stamps will be available is June 22, and the only place you can get them that day is at Bass Pro Shops in the Fingerlakes Mall in Auburn.

The stamps will go on sale at 10 a.m. following a press conference and celebration ceremony attended by state and local politicians, wildlife leaders, representatives of local sportsmen groups, regional postal managers, stamp collectors, waterfowl guides, hunters, wildlife artists and carvers.

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End to stamp shortage soon

COLOMBO: The Postal Department has taken immediate steps to end the shortage of stamps at post offices islandwide, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Rauff Hakeem said.

Minister Hakeem was speaking at a ceremony held to mark the launch two Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 inland revenue stamps and a book on Lankan stamps compiled by the Philatelic Bureau.

The Minister said these two stamps would help end the problems faced by lawyers and land kachcheris due to the shortage of revenue stamps.

These two stamps will be valid only for a few months until sufficient high security stamp stocks arrive from foreign suppliers, he said.

These two revenue stamps were printed in Sri Lanka, which had never been done before.

Thirty five million stamps are due from a Lithuanian company within the next months, in the denominations of Rs.

Stamps highlight West Coast lighhouses

These are the five 41-cent postage stamps showing West Coast lighthouses. The stamps feature, from left, Diamond Head Light, Five Finger Islands Light in Alaska, Grays Harbor Light in Washington, Umpqua River Light in Oregon and St. George Reef Light in California. (AP Photo/USPS)AP .

DWYM: Stamps

With stamp prices recently jumping to forty-one cents, everybody is running out to buy books of first-class stamps. But you may not know that where you buy them could make a big difference in how much you pay.

Dorothy Roth, like many of us, needed new forty-one cents stamps.

"And I thought well I'll stop at UPS; they sell stamps. I've been their once before," Roth explained.

She decided to buy a roll at a nearby UPS store.

"I didn't think anything of it when she said forty-five dollars," said Roth.

When she returned home, Roth discovered the store didn't sell her the new stamps, but rather the old thirty-nine cents stamps. She said she could live with that, except she then realized the store had charged her an additional six dollars on the roll of stamps! Which was an additional six cents per stamp.

Uzbekiston Pochtasi issues postal stamps on Uzbek architecture

Pursuant to the decision of the Uzbek Agency of Communication and Information, Uzbekiston Markasi (Uzbekistan Stamp) division of Uzbekiston Pochtasi (Uzbekistan Post) Company has prepared and printed out a series of postal stamps, consisting of 12 stamps and 4 coupons illustrating historical monuments of Tashkent, Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand, the agency's website says. .

Stamped Postal Cards, Pay Tribute to America's Pacific Lighthouses

The lights of five historic lighthouses will beam among the nation's 37,000 Post Offices when the 41-cent Pacific Lighthouses commemorative stamps and 26-cent stamped postal cards are issued nationwide. The stamps and cards depict Diamond Head Light (Hawaii), Five Finger Islands Light (Alaska), Grays Harbor Light (Washington), Umpqua River Light (Oregon) and St. George Reef Light (California).

The first-day-of-issue ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. PT, at the Grays Harbor Light, owned and operated by the Westport Maritime Museum. Other events are being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, Juneau, Alaska and Crescent City, Calif., that day. Reedsport, Ore. will celebrate the stamps during the town's Ocean Festival, July 20 and 21 and offer a special postmark.

Each stamp features an original acrylic painting by Howard Koslow, based on recent photographs of the lighthouses.

Post Corp has new stamp collection

The postage stamp that was officially launched yesterday to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the Transatlantic trade in Africans. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

Are you interested in the collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, and related materials? whether new or old?

The Jamaica Postal Corporation has added a new design and product to the face of its stamp collection.

The stamp was displayed at its launch in commemoration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the Transatlantic trade in Africans to Jamaica (1807-2007) at the Central Sorting Office in Kingston.

In unveiling the postage stamp yesterday, Kern Spencer, Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, said it was done in the memory of our ancestors.

Lighthouse stamp series features Umpqua River Lighthouse

The 65-foot tower that looks out over the Pacific Ocean from above the dunes at Winchester Bay was chosen to represent Oregon on a first-class stamp. Its one of five Western lighthouses depicted on stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service as part of the Pacific Lighthouse series.

The stamps were officially issued this morning following a First Day of Issue ceremony at the Grays Harbor Lighthouse in Westport, Wash., one of the other lighthouses honored in the series.

Were really excited. We think its a real recognition of the beauty of the Umpqua River Lighthouse and all the efforts over the past few years to restore it, said Gardner Chappell, director of the Douglas County Museum in Roseburg and the Lighthouse Museum in Winchester Bay.

Each of the stamps in the series features an acrylic painting by noted lighthouse artist Howard Koslow.

Duck stamps go on sale Friday

The 2007-2008 Federal Stamp and Junior Duck Stamp go on sale Friday, and Bass Pro Shops throughout the country will be the first to offer them.

Some 42 Bass Pro Shops, including the one at the Savannah Mall, will make a special presentation through an unprecedented agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It will be the first time that the initial sales have been held outside of Washington, D.C.

The stamps will go on sale beginning at 10 a.m.

A special ceremony is planned for the sale at all locations; in Savannah it will include such dignitaries as Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson, state representative Bob Lane, George Erwin, chairman of Georgia's Ducks Unlimited, Savannah postmaster Linda Shall and Amy Ochoa, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife ranger with the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Complex.