One of the United Kingdom collectors' best-loved publications, Stamp Magazine, is to close after 91 years. The September 2025 issue will be the last; unexpired subscriptions will be transferred to Stamp Collector magazine.
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| Cover of the September 2025 - and last - edition of Stamp Magazine. |
Editor Guy Thomas said:
"With declining sales and declining advertising revenue, coupled with rising printing and distribution costs, our publishers can no longer see a way to keep the magazine viable. I’m afraid that printed magazines (and, for that matter, newspapers) are in terminal decline."
Apparently they were never short of contributions from professional philatelic journalists and enthusiastic wannabees like me, but budgetary constraints presented a problem.
Some Stamp Magazine staff are being made redundant with immediate effect which presents them with a great deal of uncertainty.
I am sure my readers, many of whom will be their readers, wish them all well in whatever they do, whether it is further employment or retirement.
UPDATE 14 August.
As I have mentioned in several posts I am ploughing through boxes of covers - GB and other postal history - and find all sorts of things which I will write about, mainly in the postal history blog.
And I found this, apparently unremarkable card:
It looks a bit like my father's writing, and I was still at school so why would dad be writing to me on a printed paper rate endorsed card?
But the reverse explained all:
And only the teenage me would use his typewriter to add the caption - "Last day of the 2½d. rate".
But clearly I had the notion that 'stamp collecting' wasn't just 'stamp collecting' even then!
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