Non Stamp Items In My Philatelic Collection

Life Magazine issues from May 3, 1954 and November 30, 1959 featuring postage stamps on the cover, and an 80 page U.S. Government Printing Office pamphlet titled "Various Speeches in behalf of the Hon. James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States, During the Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session (1940).

I, too, have a copy of the 1954 issue of Life that I got on ebay. I was unaware of the 1959 issue and will have to keep my eye open for one.

Nice items moneil

I have a few non-philatelic items to add colour to my collection. Census reports, old geographical encyclopedias, Postmaster-General reports etc.

I have the same Magazine. (somewhere)


If you have the mag. close by, can you determine if this image is from it please?
My code of Hrh and mb I have forgotten, who are these gentlemen?

MB= Maurice Burrus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Burrus

I, too, have a copy of the 1954 Life. It was in a carton, with stamps, albums, etc, that I got from my grandfather who was collecting at that time. I started collecting about 1970, so it wasn't all that old when I got it. I don't think it is very valuable, as a Life back-issue, but I have never priced it. It has no monetary value to me, but it was Gramp's so I don't have the heart to get rid of it. Not much of a reason, I realize, but that's the reason. It is the only Life magazine that I have.

Does it have any value?

Hey, I'm a collector. Leave me alone about it.

The current prices on ebay for the May 3, 1954 issue range from $6 to $30. I think that I gave around $10 for mine shipped. It cost a lot more than that for the frame. I liked the cover so much that I removed and framed it and have it hanging in my den.

NICE!

I thought of framing some of my stamps and hanging them on the wall, but they are so very small that I don't think it would work well. Framing the Life cover, however, would be visible from across the room. Then again, philatelists exhibit their stamps all the time, in frames. But they do that at stamp shows, not in their living room or den. Anyway, there are no stamps on my walls.

Fun mix of stamps on that LIFE cover, for sure. I dig the Jhalawar stamp poking out beneath the Penny Black.

Funny, I was thinking about starting a similar topic, listing any "extras" people might have in their collections. In my case it's some non-stamp items I have in my Great Britain collection. On the very first page I have one of the famous Arthur Szyk prints, the one for Great Britain. If you're not familiar with him, Google the name. He was a well-known artist who was most active in the 1940's. He did a lot of magazine covers, ads, book illustrations, most notably the Book of Ruth, and Anderson's Fairy Tales. In the late 1940's the stamp dealer Bileski commissioned him to do a series of prints that were sold on a subscription basis and were intended to be the frontispiece for stamp albums. I bought one years ago to frame and hang on my dining room wall, and when I started collecting GB stamps in earnest I obtained another one, which is better than the first one because it's signed by the artist, and luckily, it fits the page perfectly. Then I have a few pre-stamp covers, including one with a Bishop's mark from the 1790's a one crown coin from the Isle of Man from 1990 which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Penny Black and I thought it would be fun to obtain a signature from all 6 British monarchs from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II. I have them all, and since most of the documents are too big (and too delicate) to keep in the album, I made xerox copies of the signature part and placed those in the albums at the beginning of each reign.

@ rod222

The picture you posted in note #4 of this thread is indeed in the May 3, 1954 issue of Life Magazine, on page 98.

MB = Maurice Burrus, as you know.
HRH = H. R. Harmer

I wouldn't know where to begin to describe all the ephemera I have in my collections....

Photo essays:




Publicity photos:





Stampless covers:




Essays of what never was:








Post office bulletins:





Original stamp artwork:






Should I keep going?

H.R.Harmer......! Sheesh, should have known that !
Thanks Moneil, very much.

The current and the previous Somerset Stamp Auctions sales have included an extensive range of Victorian and Edwardian stamp boxes and measures. Some (small) pictures at the latter end of the "Images" section

http://www.somersetstampauctions.com/stamp-images

I also have a copy of the Life magazine. Nice item.

This sits one of my stamp shelves:

Back around the turn of this century I collected several magazine covers depicting stamp collecting. I have the two Life shown above, plus a couple of Saturday Evening Post and an exceptional issue of Fortune. Somewhere, I also have a Boys Life with a stamp-related cover, but it is not framed and I can't find it.

I apologize for the poor photos, but these are framed and mounted on the wall of my stamp office area.

Don




Below, my favorite, been there and done that!


This magazine was expensive in 1934, $1 a copy, $10 a year, but the quality of the paper and printing was outstanding.

Nice articles Don.

"Been there done that".... also had my elbow on the desk, cardigan picks up the stamps, and you suddenly find them on the floor.