Active buyer and seller of Southern postal history and Confederate Stamps with over 25 years experience
as a Confederate Stamp dealer. All stamps are guaranteed genuine. The site also has several informative
articles about Southern Postal History.
The web site of John L. Kimbrough MD - dealer, collector, exhibitor, and sometime philatelic writer.
The purpose of this site is to introduce the collector to the wonders of Confederate Philately by providing
information on CSA stamps and covers, answering any questions from collectors and other dealers, and to offer
Confederate material for sale.
This site features counterfeits and fakes of Confederate stamps. A detailed page is provided for each counterfeit
that points out some of the characteristics that can be used for identification. Since many counterfeits have
fake cancels applied, as many characteristics as possible are displayed.
An expertizing service that determines the authenticity of Confederate stamps and covers as well
as the validity of Civil War period postal usages pertaining to the Confederate mail system.
An in-depth, but still concise, look at collecting the stamps and postal history of the Confederate States.
There is also an in depth section on Confederate fakes.
An article by Patricia A. Kaufmann that first appeared in Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal, April 1976. It serves
as a good introduction to collecting Confederate stamps.