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Biography"October 29, 2018 The Washington Stamp Exchange, an international leader in the hobby of stamp collecting, is closing at the end of December. The family business, begun 85 years ago on Washington Street in Newark, produced ArtCraft Engraved first day covers, White Ace stamp albums and philatelic accessories. In 1933, 19-year-old Leo August and his older brother, Samuel August, pooled their meager resources to open a small store selling stamps and covers. The ArtCraft palette and brushes logo appeared on millions of envelopes for new U.S. stamps from 1939 until 2016. (...) [T]he Postal Commemorative Society in the 1980s began marketing (through National Geographic and elsewhere) specially designed ArtCraft covers to the general public, succeeding where Reader’s Digest and the Franklin Mint failed with similar endeavors." -- https://www.roi-nj.com/2018/10/29/opinion/end-of-an-era-in-stamp-collecting-n-j-s-washington-stamp-exchange-born-85-years-ago-in-newark-is-closing-at-year-end/
