August 2018 - Sneak Peek

CONTENTS • AUGUST 2018
740 COLLECTING
COAST TO COAST
By Wayne Youngblood
Prohibition – one of the
most controversial Constitutional
amendments
ever enacted – produced
plenty of philately to
tell the story of when
America went dry.
DEPARTMENTS
786 Books and Catalogs
780 Buy and Sell
800 Classifieds
794 Digital Discoveries
778 Expertizing
VOLUME 132 • NO. 8 • WHOLE NO. 1,411
754 A WALKING JOURNEY
By Noel Davenhill
Stamps from the former British Empire can take
you on a fascinating journey to experience some
of Mother Nature’s most beautiful waterfalls,
mountains and bodies of water.
768 CATALOGUING U.S. COMMEMORATIVES
OF THE 1950S
By Charles Posner
The impressive and unique structure of Devil’s
Tower in Wyoming made it a natural as a stamp
subject and it happened on the 50th anniversary
of it being named as one of America’s first official
national monuments.
762 U.S. CLASSICS
By Dwayne O. Littauer
It wasn’t easy in the mid-1800s to move mail
between the United States and Argentina, one
of South America’s southern nations. But, with a
little help from Brazil and France, it could be done
and here are the covers to prove it.
740 816 796
816 WORLDWIDE IN A
NUTSHELL
By Bob Lamb
Uzbekistan – a rare landlocked
country completely
surrounded by other landlocked
countries – has had
a tumultuous past, and its
stamps show the outside
influences.
803 Index of Advertisers
728 Letters to the Editor
804 Membership Report
806 New Stamps
738 Our Story
796 SHOWTIME
Philatelists traveling to Columbus,
Ohio this month for
StampShow and the National
Topical Stamp Show will
have a rare treat: a chance to
buy stamps from the United
Nations before they are formally
issued.
790 Philatelic Happenings
724 President’s Column
726 The Philatelic Experience
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