Thursday, 4 October 2018
New in our shop - Stampex FDCs, and maximum cards
We've put a few new items in our shop today, new Machin first day covers and Mail by Bike Maximum Cards, which are found most easily by looking at Recent Additions.
Other philatelic blogs (open in new tabs)
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SPAIN ~ 2026 CLNY - Year of Horse Maxicards - Spain 2026 Chinese Lunar New Year - Year of Horse ATM maxicards.
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WW I Red Cross Prisoner of War postcard redirected to Taunton, 1917 - Below is a Red Cross prisoner of war postcard from Doberitz POW camp sent to London and redirected via Kent to Taunton, arriving in April 1917. The card...
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STAMP COLLECTOR March 2026: Australia decimal postal history - I am pleased to mention that the March 2026 STAMP COLLECTOR has my article on how to collect Australian decimal postal history. It also is the lead stor...
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Poland - Poste Restante Return to Sender Marking - A contact in Poland to whom I sent some items recently as Poste Restante to their local post office didn't pick them up in time. Today I got this return...
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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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