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What you forgot to mention in your item on the special-interest, or collector, stamps being sold by the International Collectors Society [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 25] is that these issues, although legal, are often vastly misrepresented. Stamps like the ones you showed of the White House cat Socks are sometimes advertised as being rare or a great opportunity for investment. They are neither. They are printed in tiny countries at the request of the I.C.S., and only enough are used in the country of origin to qualify them as "genuine postally used." The block of nine Socks stamps, which sells...
PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face...
...Collector Arms Dealers Association (gun show...
After the ceremony, eager conference participants and avid stamp collectors lined up to purchase the collector's-item, first-issue stamps...
Riedlmayer then called HUPD. Mederos said he contacted the Granada book dealer, who said that the dealer bought the stolen volumes from a self-described "private collector" in Cambridge by the name of Jose Torres-Carbonnel, according to the March/April issue of Harvard Magazine...