Stamp Collector

Stamps to steal the show!

Most now contentious people who are celebrated on stamps were considered perfectly respectable when the stamp was issued! So, the idea of any nation purposefully celebrating robbers and thieves seems curious, but it does happen, and these make for a theme that’s sure to generate lots of debate.

Train robberies, especially those involving mail trains, have, oddly

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