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Last week, after an elaborate investigation, NASA announced that the three Apollo 15 astronauts, David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden, had carried 400 unauthorized stamped envelopes to the moon and back. Through an intermediary, 100 copies of the moon mail were eventually purchased by a German philatelist named Hermann Sieger, who in turn sold 99 of them for a reported $1,500 apiece...
...situation was embarrassing for everyone - except Philatelist Sieger. Last week the price of each piece of moon mail rose...
...reform bill, ordered ,the stamp. O'Brien got his bill and Morrison got his stamp-but when the Congressman came up for re-election last fall, his constituents voted him out of office. As for his stamp, a poll run by Linn's Weekly Stamp News, the philatelist's bible, elected the Great River Road design the ugliest of the year...
Happiness is also hobbies, and the Government is enthusiastic about them. To the philatelist, the Post Office Department offers, at face value plus the cost of handling and mailing, stamps especially selected for good centering and "freedom from tears and other flaws." For the gardener, the Agriculture Department has a list of nurseries that sell rare plants. The bird watcher can rejoice in the fact that the Commodity Credit Corp. is authorized to donate grain in bulk to feed migratory birds during periods of blizzard, flood and drought. All amateur railroaders should have a copy of the Army Map Service...
...Philip H. Ward Jr., who started his first collection at the age of four, stuck with stamps, and by the time he reached young manhood, was so wrapped up in perforations and first-day covers that he gave up an electrical engineering career to become a fulltime, professional philatelist. In the next 50 years, he built one of the finest U.S. collections of postage stamps ever assembled. He specialized in blocks of rare stamps-four or more stamps still connected by original perforation. There was a block of 16 50 stamps dating from 1847 (the first regular postal issue...