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US Stamps Jun 10, 2013, 1 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest, June 10, 2013
by CMS AdminThe availability of air for automobile tires at local service stations inspired two approaches to the June cartoon caption contest. -
US Stamps May 27, 2013, 1 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest, May 27, 2013
by CMS AdminAs might have been predicted, the similarity in the words "mail" and "male" dominated the entries in the May cartoon caption contest. -
US Stamps Apr 8, 2013, 1 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest, April 8, 2013
by CMS AdminUnited States Postal Service problems seem to be never far from the minds of stamp collectors, as proven by those who entered the April cartoon caption contest, featuring the 55¢ Ohio Class attack submarine stamp of 2000, -
US Stamps Mar 25, 2013, 1 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest, March 25, 2013
by CMS AdminThe 6¢ Law and Order of 1968 (Scott 1343) was ahead of its time, as a television show by that name (with "&" replacing "and") debuted on NBC in 1990. -
Auctions Mar 10, 2013, 12 PM
Auction Roundup: India, China, New South Wales and Canada perform well at winter sales
by By Matthew Healey, New York Correspondent -
Auctions Feb 10, 2013, 11 AM
Auction Roundup: Chinese escalation continues in recent auctions
by By Matthew Healey, New York Correspondent -
Auctions Feb 10, 2013, 9 AM
Auction Roundup: Auction year ends with high-quality items
by By Matthew Healey, New York Correspondent -
US Stamps Jan 14, 2013, 12 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest, January 14, 2013
by CMS AdminCan a DC-3 fly upside down? Several entries in the January U.S. Notes cartoon caption contest posed that question. -
US Stamps Nov 12, 2012, 10 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest November 12, 2012
by CMS AdminThe reindeer's earring on the cartoon caption contest stamp for November – one of the 2009 Christmas stamps, pictured in Figure 4 – was what caught the attention of most readers who entered. And most of those made some connection to Rudolph and the legend of his nose-so-bright. -
US Stamps Oct 24, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest September 24, 2012
by CMS AdminMaisy Mouse, shown on the Figure 3 stamp, is royalty – but she became as popular in the United States as in her native England, where she first appeared as the lead character in a 1997 book by British author and illustrator Lucy Cousins. -
US Stamps Oct 8, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest October 8, 2012
by CMS AdminThink of a turkey like the one shown in Figure 3 on the 3¢ 1956 Wildlife Conservation stamp (Scott 1077), and most of us will also have visions of stuffing and cranberry sauce. -
US Stamps Oct 8, 2012, 10 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest December 10, 2012
by CMS AdminStamp collecting was celebrated on a booklet pane of four stamps issued in 1986 to promote the Ameripex international stamp show in Chicago, Ill. -
US Stamps Sep 12, 2012, 12 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest January 9, 2012
by CMS AdminThanks to U.S. Notes readers for the bumper crop of entries for the January cartoon caption contest, which featured the 1997 55¢ Love Swans stamp shown in Figure 2. -
US Stamps Aug 13, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest August 13, 2012
by CMS AdminAbraham Lincoln as an auctioneer? That's how some readers saw the illustration of the Lincoln-Douglas debate on the August cartoon caption contest stamp in Figure 3. The 42¢ stamp is one of four issued in 2009 to portray major themes in Lincoln's life on the 200th anniversary of his birth. -
US Stamps Jul 23, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest July 23, 2012
by CMS AdminReducing fossil fuel consumption and Postal Service expenditures were linked together by several entries in the July cartoon caption contest, which featured the 2003 37¢ stamp in Figure 2, from the Old Glory prestige booklet, the second of three such booklets produced by the USPS between 2000 and 2004. -
US Stamps Jun 11, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest June 11, 2012
by CMS AdminThe fact that the Summer Olympics are in London this year inspired several entries in the June cartoon caption contest. The contest featured the 1988 25¢ stamp, in Figure 3, issued to publicize the Summer Games in Seoul, Korea. -
US Stamps May 14, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest May 14, 2012
by CMS AdminThe extraordinary golfer Bobby Jones (1902-71) is honored on the 1981 18¢ stamp shown in Figure 3, completing a swing, and the pose made it a perfect image for the May cartoon caption contest. -
US Stamps Apr 9, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest April 9, 2012
by CMS AdminGetting lost, or not finding some expected destination — these were the major themes of the entries in the April cartoon caption contest featuring the 8¢ 1971 Lunar Rover commemorative cruising the moon's surface. -
US Stamps Mar 12, 2012, 12 PM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest March 12, 2012
by CMS AdminThe March cartoon caption contest used the new Celebrate Scouting forever stamp, to be issued in June, that features a female figure as shown in Figure 3. -
US Stamps Feb 13, 2012, 11 AM
U.S. Notes Cartoon Contest February 13, 2012
by CMS AdminThe cartoon caption contest stamp for February was the 6¢ John Wesley Powell commemorative of 1969, which pictures a notional scene from his exploration of the rivers of the Grand Canyon in 1869.