New This Week

New Site Feature - You may now save your shopping cart for up to 90 days. Simply click on Save Cart on  the menu bar at the left or bottom link bar and log into your account. Come back any time within the next three months to review and purchase your selections by clicking Retrieve Cart. to check out the cart. Do please understand that saving items does not remove them from inventory or place them on hold for you.

The new additions this week total over 450 covers. The biggest section is Great Britain. There is a range of material from all periods with particularly large sections of KEVII and Machins. There is a group of Greenland with a nice range of town cancels. There of range of Liechtenstein with a couple of flights and some nice 1930's rates. A small group of Iceland is present with a few interesting town cancels and censored covers. There is a showing of Chile with two classic covers and some later Antarctic. There is a decent range of Netherlands New Guinea. Finally there is another group of France. The highlights include classic and stampless, airmail and military. Please click on the country or category name to see the new additions.

There were just over 300 new covers added to the site last week. The U.S. has additions in Prexies. Last week there were 1/2c and 1c values. This week brings more 1c, plus the 1 1/2c, 2c and 3c values. The highlights include an airmail use to Salvador and to Bahamas. The world additions are Egypt, France and Nicaragua. The Egypt has some attractive picture post cards, a number of censors and some Mexico Destinations. The France is highlighted by a number of airmail uses and exhibition cancels and labels. The Nicaragua has some early stationery, flights and first days. Please click on the country or category name to see the new additions.

State lists are progressing slowly. The need to provide scans for every cover is very time consuming North Carolina and North Dakota will follow soon. Then comes Ohio. That will likely take four months. Oklahoma will come quickly after that. Oregon will be a large list and may take as long as three months, but hopefully only two months. Then comes Pennsylvania which will take the balance of 2010 and perhaps then some. It is very frustrating that the state lists are taking so long. The only way to improve the speed would to hire a person full time to scan the existing covers. Since this would be economic suicide, I must rely on part time help that cannot always give me as much time as I would like. The balance of the states will be finished in 2011. One I have finished the alphabet, all the existing covers will have scans and I can restart the run of states and only worry about new additions.

Now Open! A number of the features of this site make it impossible to offer less expensive covers. The scans, descriptions, free shipping and unlimited return privilege mean that most of the covers here are $10 and up. That doesn't mean there aren't lots of interesting covers and postal history that sell for less. I have a new website called Discount Covers. Enjoy browsing though thousands of covers priced at $1.25, $2.50 or $3.75. Over 60,000 covers are available. You'll have a good time. Please visit http://discountcoverstore.com.

Over 2800 will be new Monday November 16 at about Noon Pacific Time. This upload features Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France Military, Germany and Russia as the biggest sections of world covers and First Days and Event Covers as the strongest sections of U.S. covers. There should be something for almost everyone. The next upload will be on December 14.

My newest web site is Stamps Plus. The goal is to offer a wide range of material, both basic stamps and specialty items. Expect to see used and unused, sets and singles as well as unused stationery, first days, revenues, and the gamut of philatelic items not listed in the catalog. Please visit  http://www.stamps-plus.com/