Howdy--
Welcome to my page! I'm glad you stopped in. Quite frankly, though, you'll learn a lot more about what I do at my own website, which features pages about my own collecting interests as well as net price lists of other items I have for sale.
You might also wish to take a look at my Postcard Primer and my Stamp and Postmark Primer. They are written to introduce philatelists to some postcard-collecting terminology, and to introduce non-philatelists to the stamps and postmarks they might expect to see on vintage postcards.
United States #1--my new "baby"
My own collections
I collect a lot of philatelic stuff, but not generally the same material that I sell. My major collection at the moment is Ohio Postal History--particularly stampless covers, Doane cancels, and machine cancels--you can see more about most of this at my own webpage, linked above. US machine cancels are a fascinating, yet inexpensive field. I'll try and get a page up about them but until then I simply encourage you to look into the field.
I also have a topical exhibit of "Ohio and Ohioans in Philately" that was shown at Stampshow '99 in Cleveland and will return for Stampshow 2003 in Columbus.
My newest project is a gallery of Ohio Stampless Covers which includes a decent quality scan of every stampless cover in my collection, available by town and county. This is an Ohio Postal History Society project; feel free to submit your covers if you'd like.
I also collect pre-1940 Worldwide stamps, though with widely varying degrees of activity. At the moment I have a taste for German colonies and number ones.
Show and Tell
One aspect of my own website is my Show and Tell page, in which I share some of my favorite items from my own collection. Take a look!
What's Going On
I practice antitrust, business competition, intellectual property, and e-commerce law with Cleveland-based law firm Thompson Hine & Flory LLP. I'm also the proud "father" of Zeke who joined the family in mid-August 199. I have also assumed the editorship of the Ohio Postal History Journal, the quarterly page publication of the Ohio Postal History Society. Please ask me for details.
Me
My wife Christine and I in an inordinately dressed-up state
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