Re: [HCDX] [radiostamps] First ever 'DX-ing' postal stampissuedinthe world!

2004-09-23 Thread wghauser
I don`t think it has any philatelic value, just a curiosity like having your portrait replacing a US president on a US banknote. 73, Glenn --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horacio A. Nigro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...And now we should query about the real value of a stamp like this in a radio

[HCDX] [radiostamps] RESEARCHING EKKO AND OTHER VERIFICATION STAMPS

2004-06-18 Thread wghauser
RESEARCHING EKKO AND OTHER VERIFICATION STAMPS In response to Doug Nyholmn's questions about EKKO stamps in the Western DX Forum last issue, very little information exists on radio verification stamps, except for two articles which have appeared in Popular Communications Magazine (April, 1986

[HCDX] [radiostamps] EKKO

2003-07-10 Thread wghauser
Via DX Listening Digest: EKKO stamps that were printed back in the 1920s and 1930s by the American Bank Note Company for the EKKO stamp company in Chicago. The American Bank Note Company printed many items, including money for foreign countries in addition to postage stamps. Postage stamps are

[HCDX] [radiostamps] CANADA POST TO RECOGNIZE FATHERS OF THE WIRELESS AGE

2002-10-26 Thread wghauser
From upcoming DX LISTENING DIGEST 2-166: ** CANADA. CANADA POST TO RECOGNIZE FATHERS OF THE WIRELESS AGE OTTAWA, Oct. 21 /CNW/ - Two significant events in the history of communications technology will be honoured this month with new stamps. On October 31, 1902, the Pacific Cable was opened and