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This is How The Stamp Trade Works
from/respond to: Andrew McGavin ►If You want to learn how the stamp trade works, please read on… When I was 15, I did. I wondered if there was some secret source of supply? So, I bought my 1st stamp mixture, (wholesale I thought), broke it into 50 sm
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Stamp Collector
Publisher: Matt Hill Editor: Matt Hill [email protected] Assistant Editor: Tina Jackson [email protected] Contributors: Brian Austin, David Bailey, Christer Brünstrom, Maurice Buxton, Dane Garrod, Paula Hammond, Stuart Leigh, Eva
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Stamp Update
Page 8 RDP Signatories announced Page 10 Midpex set for July Page 10 Ukraine issue Banksy stamp Royal Mail’s new set of special stamps celebrating flowers are the first to feature the silhouette of HM King Charles III, the first change of silhouette
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Welcome To Stamp Collector
When I wrote here last month we had just been shown the new King Charles III definitives for the first time, with opinion split on whether the Machin-esque design was the right approach or if Royal Mail should have gone for something a little differe
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Writing In This Issue
Tina Jackson, author and Stamp Collector Assistant Editor David Bailey, freelance writer, collector and former stamp trader Christer Brünstrom, philatelic journalist and author Do you have a stamp-related story to tell? Would you like to share your e
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New Stamps
The landscape of the Falkands Islands is conveyed by a local artist in a new set of stamps, the third to honour artist Mike Peake, who left the UK for the Falkland Islands in 1959 to work at the Radio Space Research Station. Although the first of Mi
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Steaming Ahead
Is there any more evocative image of the Age of Steam than that of the Flying Scotsman thundering its way along the tracks, a 70-foot iron monster weighing 97 tonnes, belching steam from its funnel like a locomotive dragon? Built in 1923, this year t
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Collecting In The USA
Susanna Mills is the editor-in-chief at the American Philatelic Society, where she is responsible for two distinguished philatelic publications: The American Philatelist, which was launched in 1887 and is the world’s oldest continuously published phi
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Machin History
With British definitive and special issues now appearing with the portrait of King Charles III, perhaps it is fitting to reflect on an aspect of the Machin portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that many may not appreciate. Much has been written about both
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Market Insight
Page 27 Stamp Detective Page 28 Online stamp prices Page 30 Gibraltar price guide PRICES INCLUDE BUYER’S PREMIUM UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Cherrystone Philatelic Auctions recently sold this unused 1854 Indian 4a blue and red, from the second printing.
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Gibraltar’s 1953 definitives
Way back in 1968 I decided to pay a visit to Gibraltar but it turned out to be far from easy. At the time the Spanish government had hinted that it would close the land border with the tiny British colony obviously wanting London to return the rock t
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Papua Lithograph One Penny
This 1899 photo shows a Lakatoi, a vessel employed to sail on the tail of the south-east monsoon up the coast of Papua to trade pottery for Sago. The image was used to create the vignette for the Papua Lakatoi stamps issued from 1901 to 1932. In 1884
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Collectors’ Corner
About a century ago, radio broadcasting was still in its infancy but it made huge progress towards the end of the 1920s, writes Christer Brunström. The BBC traces its origins back to 1922. Radio listening soon became a favourite pastime and the deman
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Liechtenstein, Germany and Switzerland
The stamps of Liechtenstein tend to be seen as an adjunct to a collection of Austria or Switzerland, the two countries on its borders. But this tiny Alpine principality has much to offer in its own right. Up until 1918, Liechtenstein was part of the
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Aloe, Aloe – Aloe?
The Black Sea port of Batumi (Batum) in the south-west of Georgia has only ever issued stamps with one design, and this is it. It is said to show an aloe tree – though that tree is not native to the area. Some people say the tree is a cordyline or ‘c
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Tonga definitives 1953
CELEBRATED SETS The Tongan archipelago consists of three main groups of islands scattered over 270,000 square miles of the Southern Pacific. They were discovered in stages from the 16th to the 17th centuries – and eventually mapped by Captain Cook. H
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Crowned Heads
The first special stamps featuring the effigy of the new King Charles III were revealed in March, with an onsale date of 4 April, just weeks before his coronation in May. These stamps mark a new philatelic era, but it has not yet been announced if th
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O Is For Optical
When it comes to collecting, the broadest topics can be both surprising and satisfying. That’s certainly true with O for Optical – a potentially vast thematic that encompasses everything from the physics of light, to vision, and the science and histo
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Between the Sheets: An American in Germany
The writer or the recipient of a letter is sometimes thought to be a philatelic irrelevance – all that matters is the postal element. However a postage stamp was invented as a simplified receipt for the postage on a letter and the reason for that let
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The 1971 Postal Strike
Last month’s article described the course of the postal strike and some of the ephemera associated with it. This second part will be a short overview of what really made it famous – the many private posts that operated during the seven weeks the post
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Great Exhibitions
From the first Great Exhibition of 1851, international exhibitions have been an opportunity for countries to display their latest innovations in manufacturing and technology. They have also provided a world stage on which nations could project carefu
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After the Fire… 1668
When Boudica and her people descended on Londinium and created untold destruction, it was one of many horrendous events that the capital city has endured through the centuries. Fortunately and usually, with many years between: the arrival of the Duke
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Chronicles of NOELLA BRY
CHAPTER THREE THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF A DEATH IN CAIRO Noella awoke with a startling start, on the day of the meeting with Doctor James Grant, the physician who certified the death of Earl King-Tenison. Whether it was her subconscious alerting of a ga
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