Norvic Philatelics Blog

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of C.S Lewis’ timeless classic ‘ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe ’, part of the...

May started as April ended with the default British Heart Foundation postmark.  BHF is the charity nominated by Royal Mail employees as the ...

When Her Majesty Queen Elzabeth died I decided that I would not produce a similar volume to the Machin Security Checklist, for the stamps of...

Ahead of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8th May, Royal Mail is issuing a set of stamps which don...

My thanks to reader BB who sent me a surprise package of assorted forgeries before the weekend. The dog from the 2001 1st class self-adhesiv...

If Ol' Blue-Eyes can do it, so can I! Frank Sinatra (USPS) Well, I'm not really retiring from this hobby and business, but I'm t...

The Christmas stamps of 2001 were innovative; the first after the complex Millennium series of special    issues, they were self-adhesive f...

After my criticism of Royal Mail's publicity machine in last month's news, I can praise them for the announcement of a slogan in sup...

My thanks to my fellow-blogger on the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion blog for finding and posting the latest version of the Royal Mail Special...

The stamp programme for 2025 was changed in early January and then for a second time, as this issue was brought forward from April. The Lan...