Looking at Stamps

This week, I finish my chat with Nan Calora. We laugh, talk about getting new stamps, laugh, talk about adhesive stamps, laugh, talk about crooked stamps, UN stamps and what to do with our stamps when we are gone. The website for UN stamps is unstamps.org.

This week I chat with Nan Calora, an avid photographer and stamp collector and enthusiast. She has been collecting stamps for personal and artistic purposes for over 50 years. This week we talk about monkeys, Cuba, being a doofus, Ansel Adams and the Great Mailbox Caper. Oh yeah, and we laugh a lot.

Thus week I finish my chat with Erin Seamans who is a Development Assistant with The American Philatelic Society (APS). This week we talk about Erin’s favorite stamp, stamp storage, stamps and art, connections and stories of stamps, and the 2020 APS challenge. Programs mentioned in both episodes include the 25 for 30 membership drive, Stamps for Champs, and Stamps Teach Programs. Erin can be contacted by email at [email protected]. The APS website is located at stamps.org, current stamp releases can be purchased online at usps.com. Graham Beck can be found on IG @exploringstamps and on YouTube at Exploring Stamps. The podcast mentioned is Frank Roche’s postcardist which is pre-production for new episodes and older episodes are available wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Erin is a Development Assistant with The American Philatelic Society (APS). This week we talk about APS membership options, Stamps for Champs and Stamps Teach Programs. She will also discuss working at the APS, connecting through stamps, philately in the digital era and some of her favorite stamp themes. She can be contacted by email at [email protected]. The APS website is located at stamps.org, current stamp releases can be purchased online at usps.com. Graham Beck can be found on IG @exploringstamps and on YouTube at Exploring Stamps. The podcast mentioned is Frank Roche’s postcardist which is pre-production for Season 2. Season 1 episodes are available wherever you listen to your podcasts.

This week I finish my chat with Patti Wallace. We talk about Clint Eastwood, Peacocks, the Banana Stamp incident, Stamps and Memories, and Stamps and Art. You can find Patti on IG as SouthernStampQueen. She can also be found talking peacocks on IG as allthepeacocks.

This week I chat with Patti Wallace, a 35 year stamp collector from Mississippi. We talk about life in Mississippi, stamp storage, collecting for the joy of the endeavor, stamps in paper, buying stamps online and starting all over again. Patti can be found on IG as SouthernStampQueen.

I finish my chat with Gail Marowitz and we talk about singer-songwriters, stamp storage, engraved stamps, space stamps, stamp design and a few of her favorite stamps. She can be found on IG as gninamarowitz and her studio can be found online at thevisualstrategist.com

This week we talk about stamps as art, stamps as political discourse, her new IG project—the corona virus diaries, stamp auctions and pizza. She can be found on IG as gninamarowitz and her studio can be found online at thevisualstrategist.com

We finish our chat with Abby Walker from Sacramento CA. She can be found on IG under @theartofthepost and @sacramentosnailmailsociety. This week we talk about buying stamps, stamp dealers/appraisers, social justice stamps, stamp storage and Mrs. Grossman’s stickers

This week we chat with the Mail Artist Abby Walker from Sacramento CA. She can be found on IG under @theartofthepost and @sacramentosnailmailsociety. This week we talk about how to do Mail Art, the joy of mail, the joy of penpals, the beauty of stamps and the age old question: which comes first—the letter, the envelope or the stamps.