Hi, I just found this site last night and felt that I had to join. Very interesting topics and comments abound. I am a long time collector and a member of the Rochester Philatelic Association in upstate NY. My collection interests include US, Canada in all areas with strong interests in proofs and revenues. About 7 years ago I became fascinated in 1847 covers and started collecting images from online sources. I "discovered" census listings by Creighton Hart and Thomas Alexander and found that I had many covers not included in their listings. Today I have over 3600 images including over 700 new listings and 100s of corrections to Alexander's work (mostly omissions due to overlapping images in old auction catalogs). I recently gave a presentation on my work at the RPA meeting on 5/27/10. A copy can be found here (
http://www.rpastamps.org/rpa-meetin...edule.html). I do not own any of the covers in the slides but they are awesome to look at. Also posted are earlier presentations on US proofs and Beer stamps. Enjoy.
mark
Posted 07/08/2010 1:46 pm
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