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FRANCE ~ Mondial du Timbre - Paris 2026 - France Mondial du Timbre - Paris 2026 FDC, posted on June 12, 2026 from Paris to Taipei with arrival postmarked on July 6, 2026.
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2946. 🇹🇷 Northern Cyprus Features Handicrafts Motifs. - *New issues -* *🇯🇴 *Postal service of * Jordan **-* 13 July 2026 - *EUROMED*, Traditional mosaics of the Mediterranean - 2 miniature sheets, one co...
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Three new issues from the Channel Islands - There have been three new issues from the Channel Islands this week as Guernsey, Sark and Alderney all released new sets on Tuesday. They are very differen...
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STAMP COLLECTOR June 2026; Tomas Masaryk founder of Czechoslovakia - [image: Czechoslovakia; Tomas Masaryk in philately.] 'Stamp Collector' magazine June 2026 I thought I would mention the June 2026 'Stamp Colle...
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would you buy this????????????? I hope not!! - Ok I have not written for 5 months. Sorry, too many things to write about. Why bore you, just joking. The stamp scene is full of brilliant stamps ...
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Wales - Hi. Around Christmas last year, I had a small trip to Wales during which I sent myself a number of covers. This is mainly because many postal markings f...
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I'm going to cry... - This morning, I was monitoring a Royal Mail webpage. Before 8am, they had announced business and retail postal/service rate changes... but no mention abo...
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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...
