Tips On Using This Site
If you are interested in U.S. covers from a particular county, browse to the State Postal History Page. Select the state. Click on the "Covers for Sale" link. Click on the "... By County" link. Select the county.
Do you collect the postal history of a decent size U.S. city or town? The obvious place to look for is under the state listing accessible starting from the State Postal History page. However, those pages won't deliver absolutely possible cover. The state page will only return cover I've filed by state. To find a cover that I may have filed elsewhere, go to Search For Covers and type the name of the town in the search box. You'll find many more listings than from the state page. This won't work for a scarce DPO. It will provide far too many listings for New York City. But from a place like San Antonio, Tex. or Worcester, Mass. you'll see a number of listings you won't from from the Texas or Massachusetts page.
I do not use catalog numbers. There are too many different catalogs in use through the world for any numbering system to be nearly universal. I describe the stamp in English, using the any non English proper nouns. The find the stamp you want pick out the most likely proper noun that I would use in the description. Go to Search this site and type in the proper noun to see if you get any hits. Try two or three words one a time if the first try doesn't work.
There is another way to find covers from your favorite country. The obvious place to look for is under the state listing accessible starting from the World Postal History page. However, those pages won't deliver absolutely possible cover. Go to Search this site and type the name of the country in the search box. You'll find more listings than from the Worldwide page. This is especially useful for finding covers going to a particular county.
I have made hundreds of categories to be browsed. I can make many more. What other categories would you like? Contact me. Sometimes, you can specifically Search for a cover with the sites' search engine. Sometimes, the search engine delivers too many results, many off topic. I can usually help. If you are looking for something and not easily finding it, contact me and I'll prepare a search for you.
Over the past few years I have provided assistance to many of the users of my web site. The one thing that has never ceased to amaze me is the number of people who have no greater ability to use their computer beyond following the cheat sheet they were given when they were first introduced to the machine ... Click here, click there, type this, press enter, etc etc. etc. The shame of this is that the great power of the machine is being wasted. I have been greeted too often with huh? when I suggested something very basic like copying and then pasting a piece of text While I cannot provide a Computers 101, in general if there is something you think your computer should be able to do, it probably can do it.. Experiment. Make mistakes. There is no better way to learn. It's frustrating because you may not know how to ask the question. If you keep trying you'll eventually learn the sometimes perverse way computer software works, and then finally enough jargon so you can ask the question you want.
Despite how it may sometime seem, there actually is a logic to the many internet protocols. The problem is that these standards are rarely taught to new users. It has never ceased to amaze me that I get e-mails from users of my website wondering how to get to a particular part of the web site. This confused me because the links to the place they wanted to go were right there on the page where they were lost. It became obvious that they couldn't identify a link. I've since added words like "click here" to many places where I have links, but this never should have been necessary. A link on an web page appears in a different color than most of the text and is usually underlined. The default internet color is blue for links, but you can choose to change the color, and sometimes websites choose to change the color. They are always underlined unless you change that behavior.
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