The Most Rare, Valuable, and Prettiest Postage Stamps in the 1950s [Ep. 89]

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Two issues of LIFE Magazine, from the 1950s, had cover stories all about stamps. The 1954 issue featured the world's most rare and valuable stamps, while, in 1959, they showed off the prettiest stamps being produced at that time. Come along, as I show you how the largest of mass media magazines spotlighted our hobby.
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@billsweeney4785 5 ай бұрын

Hey steady teddy my friend. I loved your book preview. Awesome. you keep us going pal, thanx.🙂

@tedtalksstamps 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Bill.

@depkpande Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@agilaeric1987 Жыл бұрын

As someone who collects both stamps and vintage magazines (millenial here!), I like this video :) I appreciate the magazine is in quite good condition, and not bound like many other magazines, so it is easier to scan and show.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comments, and thanks for watching.

@yvescote2808 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this presantation always educative as I like.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks again, Yves.

@juliebooton1360 4 ай бұрын

Interesting video - thank you! I really enjoyed the content of the second magazine - definitely a keeper!

@tedtalksstamps 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Julie, and thanks for watching.

@RADIUMGLASS Жыл бұрын

2:13 I have that issue. My grandfather saved it in 1954 and I still have it today. He wrote on the cover "Keep this all of the time". Like many back then he thought stamps were good investment. I found it in a box in my father's Attic in 1994 when I was 14. Weird how I remember the details eh? It has some neat ads in it especially with the full-page ad of The Red Cadillac Sixty Special.

@tedtalksstamps 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, for me the most interesting part about old magazines is seeing the ads.

@RADIUMGLASS 11 ай бұрын

@@tedtalksstamps even the burial vault companies advertised in those magazines back in the day 😂

@jeffsstamps Жыл бұрын

Hi Ted - thanks for this most interesting video with LIFE Magazine featuring the world’s most expensive stamps !! Really enjoyed this - thank-you !!

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jeff. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

@JCPhilately Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing Ted. Vintage stamp magazines are great. Love them!!

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thank you, JC.

@franinvirginia4475 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thanks for the podcast.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thank you for tuning in.

@gerryfedde3040 Жыл бұрын

Wow, did this video ever strike a chord with me! Back in the day, there was such a thing called a "paper store," often strategically located near train and subway stations. And what did you see? Inside there were racks and racks of every imaginable magazine and comic you could think of. Outside, there was usually a table displaying the latest and most popular magazines of which Life was always positioned first. Over the years, I've haunted antique stores with treasure troves of old Lifes and picked up several favorites. Somehow, though, I never encountered the two stamp issues you featured in the vid. Thanks so much for the education and trip down memory lane.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Be on the lookout for the April 13, 1962 issue, and hope it still has the Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris baseball cards intact. 😃 Thanks for watching, Gerry.

@gerryfedde3040 Жыл бұрын

Definitely will do.

@Rangersly Жыл бұрын

I knew of the first LIFE magazine you showed, but had never heard of the second. In any case, I really appreciate you looking into both of them and showing all the pages where stamps were concerned. Now I want to get the 1959 issue and build a small topical collection of all the stamps featured as the most beautiful.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

You mean you don’t want to put together their rare collection?😁

@Rangersly Жыл бұрын

@@tedtalksstamps 😅 Only in my dreams!

@charleswulff3732 Жыл бұрын

A very interesting video. Thank you posting it.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

And thank you for watching.

@GreatStampAdventure Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Ted. What an interesting and highly enjoyable video. I loved it. Amazing how that stamp of Austria could be enlarged so much, and still look so magnificent. I agree with the beauty of African biodiversity on stamps!

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it, GSA. Thanks for stopping by, again.

@buckster422 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating video! I really enjoyed it!

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again Greg.

@NisargSutaria Жыл бұрын

Awesome Research :-)

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nisarg. 😀

@Ednarknofiklausdittel 8 ай бұрын

Nice Video... Thanks!!

@tedtalksstamps 8 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

@corneliucatana1241 6 ай бұрын

I saw that, impressive, but there no stamp collection yet known or discovered like mine.

@tedtalksstamps 6 ай бұрын

SUPER!

@Creek54 Жыл бұрын

You mentioned famous modern stamp collectors. John Lennon was one and also Freddy Mercury. And of course Queen Elisabeth II had a world class collection.

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Actor Samuel West, also. Mark Cuban made a business out of stamps when he was younger, which helped pay for college.

@Creek54 Жыл бұрын

@@tedtalksstamps It just dawned on me that they're all from the UK (except Mark Cuban)

@patiencezero-xc9zl Жыл бұрын

John Sununu and Karl Rove are stamp collectors.

@LiverpoolStamps Жыл бұрын

wow very fascinating!

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thanks, LS.

@BlkUnicornTarotpist Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

@hamoostaffat Жыл бұрын

I had one of those along with a few other different magazines the titles of which are as lost in the grey matter as my magazines are to flood damage 🥺

@tedtalksstamps Жыл бұрын

Saturday Evening Post, in 1954, had a cover featuring the painting, “Stamp Collector.”

@hamoostaffat Жыл бұрын

@@tedtalksstamps I have a print of the painting but nothing of much value or substance surrounding it, saw it one day just out shopping, caught my eye because the old guy is the spitting image of my grandad 😄

@RADIUMGLASS Жыл бұрын

Did John DuPont leave his mark on that first stamp?

@tedtalksstamps 11 ай бұрын

Yes, he signed it with JEdP in pencil.