ABOUT US
The Heritage Collections, Ltd. ®, is a privately owned company incorporated in 1983, with roots that go back to the 1960’s.
Heritage and its founder, Roger Williams Dudley, were among the first, if not the first, major producers of collectors’ limited edition philatelic-related products. For example, a 1969 article in Linn’s Stamp News featured many of the founder’s early products. Linn’s is the world’s largest weekly stamp newspaper.
Since that time articles and/or photographs of our products have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Detroit News, the Houston Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, and in newspapers affiliated with the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. The products have also been shown on ABC television and, for four years, on NBC’s Today Show.
National Acclaim: Special and unusually prestigious acclaim has come to Heritage as the result of a current hardcover coffee-table book that features Heritage products alongside those produced by such internationally famous manufacturers as Tiffany, Cartier, Gorham, Harrod’s of London, Neiman-Marcus, Reed & Barton and Wedgewood. This book, Silver Christmas Ornaments, A Collector’s Guide, was published by Krause Publications, the world’s largest hobby publisher, and describes Heritage’s Christmas Stamp Ornaments as being as difficult to find as the original “Beanie Babies” when those collectibles were first introduced.
Customers served: The prominent organizations served by Heritage run the gamut from United States governmental agencies to private industry to the international community. Special products have been created by Heritage at the request of the office of a President of the United States and a Postmaster General.
U.S. government customers include:
- The White House
- The U.S. Postal Service
- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- The U.S. Senate
- The House of Representatives
- The Library of Congress
- The National Archives
- The Smithsonian Institute
Other organizations served include:
- Dupont
- Otis Elevator
- Sikorsky Aircraft
- Sperry
- Xerox
- Nissan
- Association of American Publishers
- Carnegie Foundation
- Dartmouth College
- Norwich University
- University of Notre Dame
- American Newspaper Association
When sold exclusively in United States post offices around the country, various postal officials are quoted as saying they “…never saw anything sell so fast!”, “…order for 1,000 sold out immediately”, “doubling (next year’s) order…”