Edward T. Donegan Associates

01/10/2024

Come to the New England Stamp Expo 2024 in Natick, MA this weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Verve Hotel, Natick. Show is open 10am to 6pm. I will be there Friday with British, Covers and US.

03/30/2023

Postal forgery! Do you know which one? Scott catalog #1287 is the 1967 postage stamp shown on the right. The stamp on the left is CF1, postal forgery noted with a tiny dot over the c of 13 cents. They can be purchased on ebay, edsroom stock #13316, for $34.95.

01/01/2023

France offices in China block of four, Scott Catalog . Very scarce, catalog price of $800 per stamp, total $3200. Canceled Sock On the Nose in 1907. Come see it at the Dedham Stamp Show 1/1/2023! Ask for Eddie.

05/03/2022

The One Penny Black, world's first postage stamp. The one on the left shows four margins which is rare. The example on piece to the right shows more typical cutting of the sheet of stamps, missing margins entirely. Stock 10399 and 10400 @ https://www.ebay.com/str/reded418

04/28/2022

The British government issued the first stamps for Tristan de Cunha in 1938. Before then, a stamps was made to be used locally on the island. The famous Potato Stamps had a face value of four potatoes, rather than currency. The souvenir sheet facsimilies is autographed by the designer A.B. Crawford. See it at the Dedham Coin, Stamp & Sports Cards Show May 1, 9a-4p.

04/01/2022

Need to be lubricated? Come see this fun mailed for 1 1/2c advertisement at the Dedham Stamp Show on Sunday. Now also buying and selling sports cards and memorabilia. Unopened wax boxes of 2022 cards.

04/01/2022

One of the more amusing covers we've come across, with googly eyes. Local post, with its own local circus stamp canceled on cover. See it at The Dedham Stamp & Coin Show Sunday 4/3. The show will feature a sports card and memorabilia dealer, Shawn DeMello, who will have better cards and 2022 unopened wax boxes of many sports.

03/16/2022

02/25/2022

Catapult Flights from the French liner "Ile De France". September 13, 1928. Plane was forced down to sea near Scilly Islands, and after floating for 10 hours was lost in the choppy sea after the pilot and mail was rescued. Some covers have a small blue cachet "Mail rescued at sea from plane abandoned 400 miles from Paris". Backstamped Paris, September 15.

02/02/2022

The Dedham Stamp and Coin Show is this Sunday, February 6th. As always, the first Sunday of every month. It was posted incorrectly as 2/7 in Linn's; please pardon the error and hope to see you there!

01/26/2022

The USPS issued this Norman Rockwell souvenir sheet in 1993. The artist created these depictions of the Four Freedoms that distinguish Americans, as outlined by President Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union address. Richard Sheaff designed the four stamp sheet for the post office.