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1428. 🇦🇺🇨🇽 Australia Post - No Respite For Collectors. - 🇦🇺🇨🇨 *Australia Post *has announced another parade of new issues for the upcoming 2 months - sadly. These, then, are the latest philatelic gems:- 7 May...
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Wincanton, WWI Censorship - The cover illustrated below was posted from Wincanton to the USA in October 1916 by Charles King, a stamp dealer. As a stamp dealer, he had to have a permi...
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New Internet Auction from Naantali now online - *The next Internet auction from Naantali is now online at filateliapalvelu.com* *I have contributed hundreds of items in my usual areas: Armenia, Azerbai...
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Hanse Across the Sea - The Hanseatic League, or Hanse, was formed as a northern European trading organisation, founded in the middle of the twelfth century in the north German ...
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ATM NEWS ~ Ireland - Definitive Stamp Series Set 3 - Defintive Stamp Serues Set 3 Issue Date: January 31, 2019 Label Size: Printer:
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Penguin Post Office – The Post Office With a Difference! - [image: Penguin Post Office Main Article Image] If the Penguin Post Office sounds a bit unusual, that’s because it is! Learn more about this fascinating ...
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Space on Stamps: Yuri Gagarin & Vostok 1 - On April 12, 1961, at 6:07 AM. UTC, Vostok 1 had been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and carried the first man into space. He was, of course – Yur...
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Octagonal Machin Exhibition Sheets - The trouble with being an avid Machin collector is in the past I tended to pick up anything that was Machin related, so over the years I have accumulated ...
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A few more 18 and 19 code oddments - Another M19L MCIL in the latest Concrete & Clay book. 1st Large M18L MFIL with bright fluor 1st Large M18L MAIL pale red (although the scanned image does...
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Understanding Canadian (small sized) definitive stamp series - Though I’ve been keeping a somewhat low profile lately (life happening; still is), I have managed to find some time for stamps every now and then. My re-h...
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Common stamps - but what were they used for? - *The first set of Machin definitives included an 8d in red (or bright vermillion) issued on 1 July 1968. This was just one of the range from ½d to 1/9d rep...
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WW2 Occupation Parcel Cards from Gœbelsmühle - Parcel cards (*Post-Paketkarte*) used in Luxembourg during the WW2 German occupation provide a fertile field for specialization and research. Sadly, lit...
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Tanzania 85th Year of H.R.H. The Queen Mother stamp 1985 - As I understand it via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Tanzania and elsewhere, the original stamp printing w...
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John Clum in Alaska - By Nancy Pope, Curator and Historian Clum with his first wife, Mary, in Tombstone, AZ. In 1898, the cry of “Gold” rang out with the discovery of the precio...
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Blog de timbrofil. This is it! - This is it! From now on, ‘Blog de timbrofil’ – as I called my stamp-related blog a few years ago – has became history! It will still remain online with its...
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Topnimarka's Flood of Illegal Stamps to "honor" the 2018 World Cup - BUYER BEWARE!!!! - So I am looking around Delcampe to check out new issues for various countries and I notice one of the most prolific philatelic wallpaper producers, Topnima...
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Å ilutÄ— 1942 - Postmark of Heydekrug March 1942 Sender's address: Kolleschen bei Jonaten Kreis Heydekrug (Ostpr.) It has been long since I have posted something here the ...
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I Focus... On the 1d Yellow Ochre (Part 3) - It began life as an experiment in a new type of stamp vending machine. The five stamp multi-value horizontal coil strip was issued in these new vending mac...
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Party Political Conferences showcase Post and Go capability - Autumn is the start of the political party Conference season in the UK and as in previous years Royal Mail are keen to showcase their brand heritage ...
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Poppy Post and Go Stamp Inspires BFPO Northolt Official First Day - The Poppy design from the Symbolic Flowers Post and Go stamp set was re-introduced for use on the 24th October and will be on issue until 13th November 201...
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New Directions - It is summertime, here in the US Pacific Northwest. Historically, I never did much with my stamp collections during the summertime-- I expect this holds tr...
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Our blog has moved! - This is the last blog you’ll find here, but we haven’t disappeared – we’ve upgraded! In a little more than a year, we will be opening the doors to The Post...
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Millennium 16 : CN Tower - *[This post is another in a series profiling each of the 68 stamps issued by Canada Post Corporation on September 15, 1999 on the occasion of the new Mill...
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1940 Centenary of World's First Adhesive Postage Stamp - On May 6, 1840, Britain issued the world's first adhesive postage stamp,the "Penny Black", featuring an engraving of a young Queen Victoria. A set of s...
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