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

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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[@agilaeric1987]

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]

Thanks for the comments, and thanks for watching.

[@billsweeney4785]

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

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks, Bill.

[@depkpande]

Thanks for sharing.

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks for watching.

[@yvescote2808]

Thanks for this presantation always educative as I like.

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks again, Yves.

[@juliebooton1360]

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

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thank you, Julie, and thanks for watching.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

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]

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

[@RADIUMGLASS]

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

[@jeffsstamps]

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

[@tedtalksstamps]

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

[@franinvirginia4475]

Fascinating! Thanks for the podcast.

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thank you for tuning in.

[@JCPhilately]

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

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thank you, JC.

[@charleswulff3732]

A very interesting video. Thank you posting it.

[@tedtalksstamps]

And thank you for watching.

[@buckster422]

Fascinating video! I really enjoyed it!

[@tedtalksstamps]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks again Greg.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

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]

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

[@Rangersly]

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]

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

[@Rangersly]

@@tedtalksstamps 😅 Only in my dreams!

[@gerryfedde3040]

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]

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]

Definitely will do.

[@NisargSutaria]

Awesome Research :-)

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks, Nisarg. 😀

[@Ednarknofiklausdittel]

Nice Video... Thanks!!

[@tedtalksstamps]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

[@corneliucatana1241]

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

[@tedtalksstamps]

SUPER!

[@LiverpoolStamps]

wow very fascinating!

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks, LS.

[@Creek54]

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]

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

[@Creek54]

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

[@patiencezero-xc9zl]

John Sununu and Karl Rove are stamp collectors.

[@hamoostaffat]

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]

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

[@hamoostaffat]

@@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 😄

[@BlkUnicornTarotpist]

❤❤❤

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thank you very much.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Did John DuPont leave his mark on that first stamp?

[@tedtalksstamps]

Yes, he signed it with JEdP in pencil.

[@suthat7021]

Makazine life, buy in Thailand.

[@raulgongora2077]

Twaskyou sr for all information the world of stamps and value very interesting.

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thank you, Raul.

[@FunAtHomeCollectibles]

Wow - that's really interesting ! Have an awesome day! 💥From HWFAH (Hot Wheels, Lego, Cards & collectables)👍

[@tedtalksstamps]

Thanks, HWFAH.

[@CoinsAZ]

👋

[@tedtalksstamps]

Hey, CAZ, good to see you. Thanks for stopping by.