EXPLORE THE WORLD OF STAMP COLLECTING ON THE WEB

We are pleased to present hyperlinks to some of the most valuable websites on the Internet geared to the philatelist. By visiting these sites (many of which lead to major stamp collecting resources) virtually any hobby information you are seeking can be easily found! SPECIAL NOTE: You will also find here various special links to non-philatelic sites of particular interest to stamp collectors.

American Philatelic Society. One of the key stamp collecting portals on the web. A fascinating place for finding out all about philately.	Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum. One of the important resources for philatelists looking for information on a variety of subject.	STAMPS.NET Philately's Colorful Magazine on the Internet. Here you will find news stories before they reach the philatelic weeklies.	American Stamp Dealers Association The American Stamp Dealers Association is a professional organization serving philately since 1914.
Incredible website where you can find out all about America's stamp designs of the 19th century.	Linn's Stamp News The online version of the popular weekly stamp collecting newspaper.	Stampshows.com A huge website containing information and calendars on upcoming stamp shows around the world.	Philatelic Periodicals Database. Compiled with the aid of the American Philatelic Research Library, here is a huge magazine directory.
American Philatelic Research Library. The world's largest stamp collecting library is open to you 24 hours a day.	U.S. Philatelic Classics Society Official website for the organization devoted to collectors of America's earliest stamps.	American Airmail Society One of the best society sites on the web! Full of colorful information for the U.S. airmail collector.	Stamp Auction Network The unique website to a worldwide connection of auctions.

AND NOW...
An unusual array of website links to places
that all stamp collectors will find of interest:

Booksmith. Here is amazon.com's biggest competitor! We understand that you can browse and purchase from a stock of over 1.2 million book titles in every possible category. Make your purchases online and you can expect to receive your book usually within 72 hours.

MysteryNet.Com. Since there are now nearly 40 mystery novels having been recorded as having philatelic themes in the plots---and since philatelists are usually congenital readers as well as collectors---here is an absolutely fantastic site to visit. This site posts new mysteries every week and visitors have the chance to actually solve them online! Wowser!

PromoMart. We found this to be the perfect place to find all sorts of imprinted merchandise perfect for the stamp dealer...or stamp club that is staging a stamp show. Everything from keychains and rubber ducks to watches and award merchandise---all imprintable with your own logo or name.

New York City Travel Site. Since many collectors either live in, or will visit, New York for one of their big stamp shows from time to time, here is the site that'll tell you everything you need to know about the Big Apple. This includes listings of some of the most unusual and interesting retail shops you can imagine...plus restaurants, hotels, etc., etc.

Computer/Software Auctions. Now here is a novel concept. OnSale is the place for the computer user to find honest-to-goodness bargains in every conceivable kind of computer hard and software and do it on an online auction format. It's highly possible that you may become "hooked" to this site.

Fairs & Festivals. We stamp collectors are confirmed showgoers. We love everything from a local bourse to a chili cookoff...to a World's Fair. Complete with a searchable database, festivals.com is THE place to find such events all over the world...not just the U.S.

If you've spent enough time on the Web you know that there are lots of free stuff you can obtain---everything from news, weather and sports, to tons of tangible free samples and doodads. For a great news source, try NEWS ONLINE. And our favorite site for linking up to lots of freebies is FREE-N-COOL.

Valise. There's a lot of live wire discussion these days about free e-mail services. Here's one that's almost free! You simply pay a one-time charge of $20 and you're signed up for life. Is it worth it? See for yourself.

The Old Farmers Almanac. It's not hard to believe that this handy yearly book appears on the philatelic library shelves of many a stamp collector. Now 205 years old (huh?), The Old Farmers Almanac continues to be a terrific little reference tool for lots of things.

CultureFinder. Many stamp collectors are quite knowledgeable fans of the arts. we even know several thematic collectors who pursue music, opera and dance on stamps who absolutely love this site. It's a beautiful place.

Bad Websites. Today there are over 1,000 philatelic sites on the Web. Wow. It's not surprising, though, that lots of 'em could learn from other sites how to and how-not-to do a site. Maybe someday we'll assemble a list of the truly great philatelic sites on the web. Meanwhile, here is a site that, though not philatelic, takes you to places that you'd perhaps not like to be.

Cinemania. What stamp collector is not also a movie fan---especially since so many flicks have featured stamps and stamp collectors (Topaz is a great one!). This is the essential site for the movie buff. What do you wanna know? It's there.

DejaNews If you're a Usenet nut, this is the place you've been waiting for! Nothing short of the best international Newsgroup directory on the Web. Think of a subject that you like, then search for the newsgroup devoted to it. It'll take you there where you can sign on and participate at will. Lots of friendly button click-thru's that make everything easy.

PCTV If you're a fan of Stewart Cheifet's Computer Chronicles on public television or watch the great computer shows on cable TV's Knowledge Television, this is the site that contains all the stuff you'll see on these groundbreaking television shows.

CatalogSite Most stamp collectors are catalog shoppers. We love to buy things through the mail. Well, now you can go to a site and order---mostly free of charge---the latest editions of practically every catalog imaginable. We ordered one from Surplus Direct, the largest cut-rate computer soft/hardware sales outlet on the Web.

CarTalk Like many auto freaks, we love to listen to Tom and Ray Magliozzi's weekly CarTalk program on National Public Radio. These guys are downright crazy! We hobbyists generally enjoy looking into other hobbies. How 'bout the #1 place for car bugs?

GeoCities If you're interested in putting up your own website here is the place to help you do it...and it can even be totally free. Not only that, but you can find out about all sorts of places to travel and even book reservations. A very friendly community!

Jack The Ripper Most of us philatelists love history, of course. We also love mysteries. Well, here is the site all about the greatest mystery of them all. The Jack The Ripper Casebook will take you back to the autumn of 1888 and provide you with an evening's worth of clues, actual photographs, and even books on the famed murders you can order online.

CyberAtlas The way to get the perfect handle on how big the Internet truly is. How many people use it? How much commerce is flowing through it?

DELL Dell has one of the most extensive sites of any computer vendor, but what really sets it apart is the nifty Customize/Buy Online feature, a natural for many of us who need to buy computer hardware by mail. But that's only the tip of the iceberg.

THE LIST Getting frustrated with your Internet service provider. The List gives you more than 2,500 alternatives. A shoppers paradise for anyone thinking of making a switch!

The All-Internet Shopping Directory Gracious! You aren't going to believe the commerce that now takes place on the Web. Soon you'll even see a major Web company that sells stamp collectors' supplies online. And check out this site's Bargain Bonanza section!

BIGBOOK Here is the place to look up te addresses and phone & e-mail addresses of over 11 million businesses in the United States. It has features you will NOT find in the Yellow Pages!

FOUR11 Ever become frustrated trying to find the address of a stamp collector you met at a show...or long ago at your local club? How about trying to locate anyone who's not been around for a while? This is the place to do it.

RealAudio If you've got Netscape 2.02 or newer (or MS Internet Explorer 3.0) and your system is capable of playing sound, it's time to bring the sounds of the Internet to your computer with RealAudio. This is audio without waiting for files to download (streaming audio).

ArchNet A branch of the WWW Virtual Library Project, this is THE site for individuals interested in archeology. It is an utterly amazingly colorful site...and full of background information that would be especially intriguing to philatelists whose collecting specialty relates to the ancient world.

Frontline Online There is no more powerful program on Public Television than the investigative FRONTLINE. Full of mystery and behind-the-scenes stories, this show has put it all on its excellent website.

BBC Multimedia Centre We are told that this is clearly the most popular website in Great Britain...and judging from its size---HUGE---and its giant wealth of information, it has to be a major place where British specialists can go for background information.

Popular Mechanics Perhaps one of the five or six largest U.S.-based websites, here is the site presented by the people whose ads turned many of onto stamp collecting years ago.

Electronic Journals The world of electronic magazine is growing by leaps on the World Wide Web. Use this site to compare our e-zine with many of the others. We think we come out pretty darned good!

Libweb Stamp collectors often need to access libraries...but how about a place where you can be led to every important library in the world? We predict that this site will become one of the most-used sites by all stamp collectors.

iTools Here you have a host of Internet tools in one convenient site. From finding software to download, to locating all sorts of useful aids---like a vast array of search engines, many of which you've never heard of, this is a key place at which to become familiar with the web.

MSNBC It has finally happened! Microsoft and the NBC Television Network have teamed up to put the Internet onto broadcast television. If your local cable system doesn't have it yet, tell 'em! And check out the website that will, we believe, bring tens of millions more people onto the Web...and quickly!

The Library of Congress Here is the essential resource of America with a wide and ultra deep range of every kind of information---from books and photographs to video, movie and audio history---available to the researcher. Even the casual visitor loves this place.

The New York Public Library Though these folks aren't too up to snuff on displaying to the public their incredible philatelic holdings---including the fabulous Miller collection of early U.S.---their resources come close to matching, and even bettering, the Library of Congress.

The National Archives Whatever is part of America's past, it's stored here...from a part of JFK's skull to the storehouse of data available at all, but one, of the presidential libraries. (Nixon didn't want the NA to have any part of his Whittier, Calif., library.)

Learn About The Web If you're a newcomer to the World Wide Web on the Internet, here's the place to get up to speed on everything you need to know to access this amazing wonder for every possible use you can imagine.

Download Shareware If you didn't know that you can actually download thousands of free software programs into your computer, here's the place to find out what's available. Talk about huge!

Find E-Mail Addresses Quickly locate the e-mail addresses of fellow philatelists who have are on the Internet. More than eight million addresses.

Political Americana Get on this WebSite and send for your free catalog of unusual and historical memorabilia on America's political past.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the web's unbelievable sites...filled with the artifacts and history that only the Met can offer.

The Smithsonian Institution and from there, The National Postal Museum. Take an armchair tour of America's greatest historical repositories. And find out what the latest happenings are at the NPM.

The Mary Rose History and maritime buffs will be captivated by this new WebSite, which hosts information on the recently resurrected, 400-year old Mary Rose, the flagship of Britain's Henry VIII's fleet.

CRAYON This amazing place will allow you to select your favorite newspapers, then build for you your own regular OnLine newspaper filled only with the type of news in which you're interested.

CapWeb Maintained by U.S. Senate staffers, here is a wealth of information about Congress and its members.

Thomas This site helps you track bills as they move through Congress and monitor the entire Congressional Record.

FedWorld A huge emporium of U.S. Government information servers on the Internet. An amazing variety of topics, searchable indexes, and publications.

Internet Public Library A huge collection of links to information sites on the Web. An emphasis on learning and education.

Genealogy Home Page The main place when it comes to searching for data on ancestors.

How Far Is It? Before you go to that stamp show, look here to find out how far away it is.

TIGER Mapping Service Sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau, this service will create a detailed map from publicly available data of any area you choose.

U.S. Weather Map The quick way to get text-based weather information about any place in America. We don't go to stamp shows without this.

U.S. Postal Service Rates, stamps, history and all sorts of info from this large site...where stamp collectors are quite welcome, of course.

Good Stuff Cheap Just like it says, get good stuff at below wholesale prices. Electronics, gadgets, you name it.

ONSALE Interactive Marketplace An online auction house that features a perpetually changing assortment of antiques and collectibles of every kind and stripe. From computer hardware to 19th century watches.

The Internet Book Shop Search for and choose from over 785,000 titles in this United Kingdom-based online bookseller site. Wow.

PBS Online Online headquarters for the Public Broadcasting System. Great monthly listings and previews and even a store. Wonderful place.

TV Net A site designed to be a gateway to the Websites of individual TV and cable stations around the world. Find your local stations, even view random current screenshots.

Epicurious You'll probably wonder why an Internet magazine for food lovers is listed here, but we thought you'd like to see what one of the other fantastic web-based magazines is like. We don't use byte-heavy image maps, but we still think our ezine is the best on the net! Right? Right!