Details and illustrations of the £5 commemorative/definitive have now been added to the earlier blogpost, and to our webshop for delivery after 6 February.
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*A deal or not a deal*
I have been tempted to write so often on this subject but I never seem to
get around to it.
Tonight I was clearing some miscella...
STAMP MAGAZINE - the end
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It is with sadness I note the current September 2025 STAMP MAGAZINE is the
last to be issued.
I am not surprised - the magazine had markedly lessened in ...
ROC ~ ATM Machine 080 Retired Service
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Republic of China (Taiwan) ATM machine code 080 will retired postal
service from July 31, 2025 and removed from Xinzhuang post office.
Gimmicks
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Earlier this month was the 185th anniversary of issue of the Penny Black
stamp. Did I mark it? No. An old blog post of mine mentioned giving myself
the d...
New King Charles III Horizon Labels
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Today 31st July 2023 is the last day of validity for the old style Machins
without a barcode. So it is now an official fact and a sad day. It is also
guar...
More about Horizon labels
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It has taken a while but I think I now have a reasonably good idea of the
development of these labels. Much of the information I gleaned from Postage
Label...
I Focus... On the 1d Yellow Ochre (Part 2)
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In my previous blog post I launched a new series focusing on the life and
times of the 1d yellow ochre Machin head stamp. In that blog I discovered
the su...
Worldwide New Issues Week 05 2018 - Part VI
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*10 FEB 2018*
*ITALY*
(US$1 = € 0.809)
Italian Vocalists
*URUGUAY*
(US$1 = U$ 28.368)
Year of the Dog
*11 FEB 2018*
*BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (CROA...
New Blog!
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I have created a new blog covering postmarks of everything except
Lithuania. Check it out if you are interested!
https://postmarkcollecting.blogspot.com
The End of a Stamp Collection
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I am selling my life-long collection of stamps from Denmark.
It's an odd-- and totally unexpected-- thing for me to be writing. After
all, I had expected I...
Millennium 16 : CN Tower
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*[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...