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1396. 🇳🇿 Gandhi, Robert Falcon Scott And Birds All Featured On New Zealand Post Personalised Stamps. - 🇳🇿 As mentioned in Blog 1395 thirty four new 'personalised' stamps have been included in this year's special pack released by *New Zealand Post*. The...
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ATM NEWS ~ France - 2019 Paris Spring Philatelic Salon - 2019 Paris Spring Philatelic Salon Issue Date: March 14, 2019 Label Size: Printer:
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Heinrich Koehler Wiesbaden - March 2019 Auction - *The March 2019 auction at Heinrich Koehler, Wiesbaden, is now online.* *I have consigned specialist material including Russian local issues of 1920 - 192...
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New Stamp Price Rise Announced by Royal Mail - [image: 12x1st Class Retail Book New Stamp Price Rise Main Article Image] A new stamp price rise has been announced by the Royal Mail and will be in effe...
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Manx and the Speed Kings – Part Two, Irish Winners - Continuing with the theme of the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy motorcycle races, the four riders shown on the stamps issued by Ireland in 1996 were all born...
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Poste Maroc stamps of 1907/1909 – bogus, cinderella or something else? - Below are few Moroccan stamp like items which have made me pulling my hair. These are not mentioned in any of the printed catalogues or resources I have ac...
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Marvel - Less Machins - Comical - The second Prestige booklet of the year has been announced. It is designed and will be marketed to attract Marvel Comic collectors or comic fans. The date...
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Baseball at the National Postal Museum - Top: 3¢ Centennial of Baseball stamp, 1939. Right: 6¢ Grandma Moses American Folklore Series stamp, 1969. The first professional baseball club in America –...
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Cross Penny Post: Boxed "No.4" in c.1838 - The Receiving House at Cheddar used the boxed "No.4" handstamp firstly in the Wells Penny Post from 1816 and then in the Cross Penny Post after it was esta...
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Oh dear. No Machins in the Bulletin. - A couple more regular issues with the 18 code (although we are now well into 2019!) an pane stamps from the two recent prestige books. I am beginning to th...
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Bangla Desh First Day Cover 29 July 1971 forgery - The following forgery I have just noticed so thought I would place detail about it here - The *T * being lower than the other letters of the word stamp i...
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Literature and Stamps: Jules Verne - Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) is one of the most important writes of all times. He’s second most translated individual author of ...
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Just published by Jean-François Montagne - Les Cartes Correspondance du Grand Duche de Luxembourg Postkarten Formulare - In this scholarly study, Jean-François Montagne has filled an immense gap in our knowledge of Luxembourg's first postal stationery classics -- the formul...
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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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Šilutė 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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Postcards are a good source of solo uses. - *The postcard pictured was drawn to my attention when it recently sold on online auction site eBay.* The rate to Zone C (which includes Australia) from 3 O...
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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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