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End of year review, 2025 edition - On the stamp front, the year started with an issue of stamps celebrating the British TV series, The Vicar of Dibley with Dawn French as the vicar. I did...
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2842. 🇸🇴 Somaliland Finally Receives International Recognition (By Israel) But Still No Stamps. - 🇸🇴 *Somaliland Recognised By Israel.* The former British protectorate of *British Somaliland *which declared itself to be the independent state of...
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Christmas 2025 produces a mixed bag of modern postal history! - *We always expect at the busy Christmas period there will be oddities in the mail. No longer postmarks from Universal machines, but sometimes oddities o...
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Almost Everything Must Go - Firstly, my apologies for being conspicuous by my absence for nearly three years. Whilst the King's definitives are similar in design to Machins, I decid...
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Wrong Postcard Rate in 1922 - The postcard below dated 3rd May 1922 was only franked at 1d, rather than the 1½d rate that had been in force from 13th June 1921. The rate reverted to ...
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priced to sell or priced to get rid of? - The thing about buying stamps from an online marketplace is, in my humble view, you get what you pay for. You can buy a nice set described as Mint Ne...
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Fife Scout Post 2025 - For many years, Scout movements in the UK have offered "Scout Post" services in which they deliver mainly greeting cards during the Christmas season. Th...
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The best new stamps of 2025 - For the last few months I've been reviewing new stamp issues from Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and occasionally anywhere else that h...
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FRANCE ~ 2025 Paris Autumn Philatelic Salon ATM Cover - France 2025 Paris Autumn Philatelic Salon ATM cover, posted on November 6, 2025 from Paris to Taipei with arrival postmarked on December 16, 2025.
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STAMP COLLECTOR magazine Dec. 2025; vexillology philately - *STAMP COLLECTOR* magazine December 2025 Time to mention my first article for a long time for this magazine, January 2016 had been the previous text ...
