In lieu of flower donations, the Birman family is suggesting that donations be made instead to The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).  HIAS works globally to provide protection and assistance to refugee populations around the world.  According to the HIAS website, “For generation after generation, HIAS has provided essential lifesaving services to world Jewry, through its mission of rescue, reunion and resettlement.”

Due to the recent death of Nathan Birman, Alex Birman might need to reschedule his previously scheduled stamp collection buying trip to the Nashville, Tennessee area.  Please contact Stamp Center to let us know if you would like Alex to review and offer a price on your collection while he is in the Nashville area.  You may contact us to schedule a time or send us your email address so that we will be able to advise you of any potential changes in travel plans, should they arise.  You may also call us at (410) 757-5800 if you prefer.

Alex Birman looks forward to continuing on with the same passion for stamp collecting that his father so lovingly instilled in him for the many years that they worked together.

Nathan Birman
8/24/21 – 2/1/10

It was first believed that the center of the stamp ball was started around a pencil stub, but now it is believed that the stamps are wrapped around the core of a golf ball.  It took 2 years for the Club to make the enormous ball.  The giant sphere weighs in at 600 pounds and is a whopping 32 inches in diameter.  It contains 4,655,000 cancelled postage stamps. Each stamp was individually affixed to the ball, layer upon layer.

In 1955, the stamp ball was featured in the newspaper column of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.  The next day, crowds traveled from near and far to view the ball.  From that point forward, the work on the sphere stopped.

One of the fun things about this creation is that it is accessible to the public.  If you want to touch it, it’s right there out in the open.  You should know that you are not allowed to add any stamps to the ball and not take any away either.  A mural of stamps sits behind the giant stamp ball which creates the perfect backdrop. Stamp Collectors old and young can also sort through boxes of loose stamps that are also at the site.

The World’s Largest Ball of Stamps can be seen here or you can see it in person by visiting the Myers Stamp Center, Boys Town, Omaha, Nebraska.

Stamp Center is also able to help you find those rare and interesting postage stamps that would make your collection complete.  Feel free to use our Online Contact Form to advise us what you are looking for and we will try our best to help you find it.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Stamp Dealers are a great resource for purchasing postage stamps.  They have extensive knowledge about their products and often times have entire collections available to purchase.

Stamp Center is a stamp collecting dealer that provides stamp collection values, stamp collection appraisals and also sells new issue foreign stamps from countries around the world.  Stamp Center is also able to locate those hard to find rare postage stamps for you that will make your collection complete.

Not only does Stamp Center strive to find some fantastic stamps to add to your collection, we also love to save our customers money.  Effective October 13, 2009, all orders shipped out to our customers in the United States and Canada will be sent out for free!  Our foreign customers will also enjoy our reduced flat rate shipping which is only $4.50!

Be sure to check out all of the amazing postage stamps that are available from countries near and far which are listed at Stamp Center.

In December of 2008, Poland launched a postage stamp to celebrate the United Nations Conference on Climate Change that occurred in Poznan.  At the conference, top officials from over 190 countries gathered to discuss the growing problems with greenhouse gasses and the need to reduce emissions around the world.  The goal of the gathering was to agree on a joint timeframe for a reduction of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere for each individual country, and to exchange technological information.

Every person can do simple things to help reduce their impact on climate changes.  Why not give these simple things a try?  Use energy efficient light bulbs; drop your thermostat by 1 degree and you will reduce CO2 emissions by 300 kilograms a year; don’t run the water unless absolutely necessary; only cook water that you actually need; and recycle everything you can.

If you are looking to add the United Nations Climate Change postage stamps to your collection, contact Stamp Center today.

It recently has been the recipient of an $8 million donation from wealthy bond fund manager, Bill Gross from southern California.  The generous donation is reported to be the largest ever received by the museum.  The money has been earmarked for a new, and first ever, 12,000 square foot addition to the museum that will be named the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery.

Once the addition is complete, visitors will be able to view some Gross’s treasured stamp collectibles.  On display will be four 1918 Inverted Jennys, a letter-carry envelope from the Pony Express, and a cover dated July 2, 1847 with a 10 cent George Washington postage stamp, among many other interesting items. But you will have to wait just a bit to feast your eyes on these fine stamp collecting treasures.  The new expansion is not due to open until sometime in 2012.

In an effort to bring awareness to the impact of melting glaciers to the environment and the many creatures that inhabit them, The Canada Post issued a beautiful set of postage stamps in April of 2009.  The animals that were chosen to be represented on the stamps were ones that are the first to feel the effects of the loss of their habitat in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.  These stamps feature a polar bear, an Arctic Fox, penguins, and a bird that migrates between the North and South Poles.

If you would like to add these beautiful Preserving the Poles postage stamps to your collection, contact Stamp Center today.

Besides being a great storyline about stamp collecting, one of the things that stamp collectors will enjoy most about this play is that it is technically correct.  Stamp collecting experts served as consultants from the beginning to make certain that the language and situations always rang true.

After its run on Broadway, the show hit the road and has popped up in various locations around the United States. Mauritius will be showcased once again at the Echo Theatre in the Dallas Fort-Worth area beginning on September 11th; but you should definitely keep watching your local theaters for this fantastically fun play about stamp collecting!  Other locations it will be appearing at are:  Philadelphia Theatre Company – March 2010 and Curtain Players in Ohio – June 2010.  If this play comes to your area, it’s certainly one that stamp collectors will enjoy!

After December 2007, the stamps were withdrawn from general sale. However, you may be able to get them online at some stamp stores. This stamp has been very popular and the response to it has been quite favorable. Still, the postal service wants to let people know that the stamp will not be available indefinitely. They’d prefer not to destroy any or at least to have to destroy as few as possible once the stamp is taken off of the market.

An Oklahoma artist did the artwork for the stamp. It shows the Cimarron River as it looks in the morning sunlight and the words “Oh, what a beautiful mornin’…” are visible in the painting. Those words were taken from a song that was featured in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” This beautiful artistic rendering commemorates the state in a lovely way and if you are at all interested in Oklahoma you will want to add this stamp to your collection.

Early in December 2007 the U.S. Postal Service announced that a Frank Sinatra stamp was to be available in early 2008. Sinatra is remembered for such hit songs as “Strangers in the Night”, “My Way”, and “(Theme From) New York, New York.” He was also known for the fraternizing with other Hollywood entertainers including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop in a group called the Rat Pack.

Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, N.J. on December 12, 1915. The American icon died in 1998 and in 2002 the post office in his birthplace was renamed to honor him.

When citizens of New Jersey were asked which musician from their state they’d take with them on a desert island, Sinatra was at the top of the list. The USPS has had numerous requests for a Sinatra stamp over the years and now the popular singer is getting his due.

Before being commemorated on a stamp, Sinatra was honored with an Oscar, several Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The stamp is a vertical design and shows a image of Sinatra from his heyday in the mid-1950s. This stamp is wildly popular since its release and continues to be a favorite for many worldwide.