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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2854. 🇲🇾 🇿🇦 Malaysia Features Local Pottery And South Africa Features Endangered Vultures. - *New issues -* *🇲🇾 **Pos Malaysia *- 22 January 2026 - Malaysian pottery - 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. ...
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New Issue: Opera Singers (Monaco) - Monaco's first issue of the year celebrates opera singers. This is not the first year Monaco has done this - in fact, this is part of a series that goes wa...
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Axbridge boxed mileage mark, January 1804 - I have posted an example of the "AXBRIDGE / 141" boxed mlieage mark before here, but I have now acquired a slightly better example. This example is dated...
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ROC ~ Butterfly ATM Cover - Republic of China (Taiwan) Butterfly ATM express registered cover, posted on January 9, 2026 from central Taiwan alpine Alishan post office.
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STAMP COLLECTOR Feb 026; King Emmanuel III Italy - [image: Stamp Magazine with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy thematic article] STAMP COLLECTOR magazine February 2026 Tme to mention my next article...
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February is Let's Write Letters Month - It is a shame a February letter writing project I loved, and have actively supported has become more or less unusable. The main issue is the use of autom...
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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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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...
