My primary collecting interest is cross border mail between the United States and the Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, prior to Confederation.  New Brunswick and Nova Scotia joined Canada East and Canada West, to form the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.  Prince Edward Island joined Canada on July 1, 1873.

I also collect all types of United States Revenue Stamps, through the Civil War era.  Other collectors have already created excellent webpages illustrating many of these revenues, so I have only created webpages for some of my special interests, including British Revenues for use in America, as required by the Stamp Act of 1765, the inverted center revenue stamps of the second, third, and fifth documentary issues, and first proprietary issue, and private die proprietary stamp essays.

 Lanman & Kemp has been in the wholesale and retail drug business since 1808.  During the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, Lanman & Kemp was used nearly every type of revenue stamp, including provisional cancels on government revenue stamps, private die proprietary stamps, and revenue stamped paper.  After the repeal of the proprietary stamps, Lanman & Kemp began using a facsimile version of their private die proprietary stamp on their products.  They continue to use their facsimile labels to this day.  

Lanman & Kemp's business correspondence from the late 1850s through the early 1880s is also available to collectors.  Due to the world-wide nature of their business, their correspondence reveals the main international postal communication routes in the pre-UPU period. 

I collect the postal history of the Apostolic Delegation of Frosinone, an administrative division of the Papal States, prior to Italian unification.

Venetian Republic AQ Lettersheets are considered by many to be the world's first postal stationery.

There is also a link to a webpage showing some of my woodworking projects.