Watercraft Philately Archive

Watercraft Philately has been published since 1952. In that time, there have been many interesting articles about ships and their histories that should be of interest to current collectors. This section of the web site is intended to become an archive of such articles. Stories will be added as time allows so check back at least occasionally.

Included here are also some pages from exhibits that feature ships on stamps. You can get an idea as to how to exhibit your stamps, either at home or at a stamp show.

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The America's Cup is a popular topic with collectors of yachts on stamps. These three links will take you to several of these articles. 

America's Cup 1 1851 to 1920 (8 pages) 
America's Cup 2 1930 to 1987 (9 pages) 
America's Cup 3 2000 to 2003 (4 pages)

Under the menu item 'Ship Topic Pages' on the left you will also find another story featuring the America's Cup.

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Waterways the world over are maintained by dredges. Without them, modern waterborne commerce would be very different.

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Norma Nielson Lloyd's of London exhibit. The pages shown here are those from the National Topical Stamp show in Clackamas, Oregon, which won the show Reserve Grand Award and also a Gold award. The exhibit, " From Coffee to Commerce: The Story of Lloyds" is shown here in five frames of 16 pages each.

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This exhibit shows the various aspects of ship stamp collecting. It was developed in order to show stamp show attendees what this facinating hobby is all about.

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All of these articles are in Adobe pdf format and you must have Adobe Reader to read them.