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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Merchant Navy stamps update

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We are now able to show some scans of the actual booklet, and especially the Machin stamps from this issue; more have been added to the orig...
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Saturday, 24 August 2013

We thought 2012 was all over - new gold Machin security stamp!

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Last year, the year of the Diamond Blue 1st class stamps, we were surprised by the appearance in the spring of the 1st class book of 12 stam...
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Thursday, 22 August 2013

De La Rue 2013 stamp printings with and without printing date, sheet number

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As reported on 17 July the new tariff stamps from the spring, originally printed by Walsall with year code M13L were later printed by De La...
Friday, 16 August 2013

Christmas is coming - only 130 collecting days to go!

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Well, much fewer if you are thinking of the Christmas issue from Royal Mail, which will be issued on 5 November 2013. This year the theme ...
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Scotland 88p country definitive stamp - new cylinders, or just redrawn numbers?

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The postage rate increase in the spring required new country definitives, as well as Machins. The Scotland 88p was printed on 14/01/13 w...
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Monday, 12 August 2013

More Machin stamps - 1st Large from booklets has appeared

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The 1st class Large booklet has now made an appearance in supermarkets in the south.  Now on our shop here . Cylinder details: cylin...
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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Australia 'GB' Faststamps - how many produced?

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I'm trying to establish the highest session number used on machine B1 to produce the UK versions of these stamps.  This is for Machin a...
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Auto Legends Stamps available from Tuesday 13th, not Monday 19th August

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As we have indicated in our earlier blogpost and on our webpage , the British Auto Legends set of 6 and miniature sheet will be issued next...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Stamp round-up; reports from our correspondents

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Reports from our readers on recent - and future stamp issues. Freshwater Lakes 25 June  [JC] "Darley Street PO Bradford the new la...
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Monday, 29 July 2013

New Faststamps from Post and Go machines at York Stamp Fair have MA13 year code

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As we mentioned earlier , the Post and Go machines made the trip from Midpex to the York Stamp Fair, with the same contents - Machins, Union...