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Sunday, 31 July 2022

Country definitive stamps with datamatrix codes - 12 new stamps 11 August 2022.

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I now have these new stamps to hand so I am adding images here, but the discussion about them on the original post is extensive, so I have ...
Saturday, 30 July 2022

Varities and retouches on Machins from booklets.

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We don't see them like this any more!  I found a small stash of booklets with varieties which can be added to collections at little cost...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2022

Postboxes round the UK painted for 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

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In the spring postboxes in some cities were painted yellow for World Book Day. Now a few boxes has been painted for the Birmingham 2022 Comm...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Price List - Machin regionals for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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I have today added a new list to our sales page today, for Machin country/regional definitives, and updated the booklets list with more stoc...
Wednesday, 20 July 2022

Transformers - More than meets the eye! - 1 September 2022

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As is now well known, the 'TBA' issue for September is entitled Transformers, and anyone who had youngsters (mainly boys) in the 198...
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Thursday, 14 July 2022

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - 28 July 2022

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The 22nd Commonwealth Games, a mass celebration of sport throughout the Commonwealth dating back to 1930, takes place between 28 July and 8 ...
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Monday, 11 July 2022

New Booklet stock in new and updated lists

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Being originally a collector and latterly a dealer I am, like many collectors, finding 'things that I didn't know I had' (or at ...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2022

July 2022 slogans and other interesting postal markings.

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The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games slogan has been interrupted by Royal Mail's annual exhortation to dog-owners to keep their hounds...

Barcoded Country Definitives - why? Who will be able to buy them?

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Royal Mail have made it known that the Country Definitives will be invalidated along with the Machins and others , withdrawn, and replaced b...
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Friday, 1 July 2022

End of the line for Royal Mail's Philatelic Bulletin

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Royal Mail has announced that its Philatelic Bulletin will cease at the end of this volume in August, after 59 years of publication. Citi...
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