November 2020

Stamp Collector

Expert advice and guides to help you build your collection

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Stamp Collector
Publisher: Collette Lloyd Associate Publisher: Matt Hill Editor: Matt Hill matthewh@warnersgroup.co.uk Contributors: Brian Austin, Sâqib Bâburî, David Bailey, Christer Brünstrom, Ed Fletcher, Karen Foy, Dane Garrod, David Gwynn, Paula Hammond, Devlan
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Welcome
It was fantastic to chat to so many different traders and collectors at the recent Virtual Stampex event. Of course, nothing beats chatting to people face to face, but this online event was a close second and it was so encouraging to see the camarade
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Thousands Visit Virtual Stampex
Quick Links Page 8 World Postcard Day Page 9 GB Stamps online conference Page 10 Stamps honour teachers Page 12 The latest new stamps The very first Virtual Stampex took place recently with thousands of collectors from around the world coming togethe
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Collectors Celebrate World Postcard Day
The first World Postcard Day took place on 1 October, bringing together postcard enthusiasts around the world with a series of special events and celebrations. Organised by the team behind the Postcrossing project (www.postcrossing.com), which allows
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Cenotaph Centenary Commemorated On New Cover
To mark the centenary of the unveiling of the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London the British Forces Philatelic Service (BFPS) has produced a commemorative cover to be issued on the 11 November 2020. The Cenotaph on Whitehall, London was erected after the
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In Brief
The Iraqi Postal Service has issued a series of eight stamps celebrating the country’s Christian churches. The Fides News Agency website stated: ‘The choice of the National Postal Service to reproduce churches on postage stamps is combined with other
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Free Online Conference For GB Stamp Collectors
A special online conference dedicated to collecting classic GB stamps is set to take place on the popular www.allaboutstamps.co.uk website from 13 to 15 November. Following the success of the month-long Summer of Stamps, which attracted thousands of
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Postboxes Mark Black History Month
Royal Mail has unveiled four special edition postboxes to honour black Britons past and present during October, Black History Month. The ‘social media-activated postboxes’ are painted black with a gold trim, and each feature a figure of significance
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Teachers Become Super Heroes On New Stamps
The Covid19 pandemic has seen a flurry of stamps issued honouring key workers, including nurses, doctors, and delivery staff, but what about the teachers? Now PHL Post, the post office of the Philippines, has paid homage to teachers to mark National
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St Anne’s Church, Alderney
Guernsey Post’s philatelic bureau has released a miniature sheet stamp depicting St Anne’s Church on the island of Alderney, in celebration of the 170th anniversary of its consecration in 1850. Widely acknowledged as being one of the finest Victorian
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Us Semi-postal Set To Return
The US Postal Service is resuming sale of an Alzheimer’s Semipostal stamp following a change in the law. The Semipostal Authorization Act grants the Postal Service authority to issue and sell semipostal fundraising stamps to advance causes deemed to
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Mitch Murray’s Top Ten
A set of new stamps celebrates the life and achievements of Isle of Man resident Mitch Murray CBE. ‘I’m looking at ten remarkable stamps,’ writes Mitch, ‘and I’m like a drowning man, but in a good way. My whole life rushes before me, the stamps captu
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Tales From The Sea
As an island, Jersey’s culture, identity and history have all been moulded by the ocean. As such, it is no surprise that a lot of Jersey’s myths and legends take place on the Island’s coastline. Six of these tales are illustrated on a new set of stam
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In Brief
The Faroe Islands have issued a new set of franking labels on the theme of hay harvesting. The four designs feature artwork by Suffía Nón, each depicting the traditional work of harvesting hay in the Faroe Islands. A new stamp set from An Post, desig
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Rupert And Friends
Rupert Bear is Britain’s longest continually running comic strip, first appearing in the Daily Express in 1920. The young bear with the famous checked trousers lives with his parents in the country village of Nutwood. He enjoys magical adventures wit
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Brilliant Bugs
Insects on British stamps is nothing new, but the return of bugs for this set feels justified, highlighting their importance to our environment. So which tiny winged creatures are buzzing onto this simple set of six? The stamps feature six important
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Market Insight
Antarctica continues to be ‘hot’, according to Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions, due to the inspiring adventures of the early explorers rather than climate change. ‘Some dramatic prices were noted including the £7,688 paid for the attractive picture pos
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Revolution in Yucatan
Revolutions sometimes result not only in dramatic political changes but also in intriguing stamp issues. In the early 1900s, Mexico went through endless troubles with different political factions fighting for power. The Mexican state of Yucatán locat
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Latest Internet Sales
Estonia, German occupation, Local Issue of Elva on postcard cancelled ELVA/15 VIII 1941 Japan, Philatelic Exhibition Tokyo 1934 sheetlet MNH (with cert.) USA, 12c G.Washington black with grill MNG (no gum) 1861 good centering (with cert.) Syria, Post
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1955 7d definitive, wmk St Edward’s Crown?
Two little-know, perhaps trivial, facts about GB 7d stamps caught our eyes as we browsed a well-thumbed copy of Gibbons while seeking a suitable candidate for this month’s HOW MUCH feature. The first is that throughout the long and prolific stamp iss
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The Cover of Hope
Here’s a philatelic tale that will give you hope and you may not have heard this story told quite like this. Firstly, forgive the initial sensationalism and its rather bleak outlook, but it’s important to dash your hope before we clear the sky for wh
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Adventures of a STAMP NEWBIE COLLECTING FOR BEGINNERS
Confession: my first purchase was a box of unsorted British commemorative stamps (the ones with fancy pictures) and I wasn’t entirely sure how to affix them to some pre-printed album pages I’d also acquired. So I did the obvious thing and glued them.
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Stamp Sidelines
Over eighty different railway companies issued postcards, writes Richard Stenlake, starting around 1899 with court size postcards and continuing past 1923 Grouping until up to the war. The LNWR alone produced almost a thousand different designs, incl
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Pioneers Of Print
The title Printers of the Penny Black surely crowns Perkins, Bacon & Petch with the ultimate philatelic accolade? Yet long before that glorious day in May 1840 secured their place in the postal pantheon, the company had, for more than twenty years, c
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Bridging A Continent
Created on the 18 November 1903, the Panama Canal Zone referred to a 553 square mile area inside Panama which encompassed the canal and five miles on either side; it did not include Panama City or Colon. Between 1903 and 1979, this territory was cont
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Treasures At The Royal Madame Joseph Forged Handstamps
The vast majority of the handstamps in the collection are hand-carved from wood with some made from zinc, others are copper-coated and one is made of lead. They demonstrate an impressive and consistent standard of craftsmanship. In addition, the coll
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The Large Key Plate issues of King George V
One of the most collectable issues of the King George V and VI period is the Large Key Plates (also known as the ‘Nyasa’ design). Developed from a King Edward VII issue of 1908 for Nyasaland, the colourful issues were designed to pay for larger posta
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Exhibition Updates
The results of the ABPS Competitions, held as part of Virtual Stampex 2020, have been announced. The One-Frame Competition included two Large Gold Medal winning exhibits by Christopher Harman on ‘Bank Note Duty 1821 to circa 1850 – Congreve Compound
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William Image ‘The Librarian of Philately’ (1807-1903)
So we’ve established that our Duke owed much of his success to our trailblazing Prince, writes Devlan Kruck. And if Ferrary is forever entwined with Tapling, then Tapling will forever be indebted to our next Philatelic Legend, William E. Image. The f
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Radio Waves
In the first half of the 20th century, before radio and television broadcasts were commonplace, amateur radio operators would often send signals across the waves with no way of knowing if they were being received anywhere else. As more operators bega
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Russia Romanov Tercentenary
CELEBRATED SETS The early years of the 20th century were a turbulent time for Russia: the Black Sunday massacre and defeat in the Russo-Japanese War had tarnished the image of the monarchy. Rapid industrialisation had created a new middle class and a
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Graphic Algeria
In an exclusive in-depth philatelic study, Richard Scott Morel, FRPSL: Curator, Philatelic Collections, British Library and Dr Sâqib Bâburî: Archivist, British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership, chart the work of Algerian artist Mohammed Racim Art
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Read All About It…
For centuries, newspapers have published ‘all the news that’s fit to print’. In some countries this basic freedom remains a rallying point for those fighting for better lives. In others, newspapers have become little more than gossip rags which trash
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Protecting Our Future
It was on 11 December 1946 that the United Nations created an agency especially to serve the needs of children, primarily in those parts of the world which had been torn asunder by the recent World War. That this was perceived as a temporary expedien
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Diocletian’s Palace
The palace is located in the Croatian city of Split on the Dalmatian coast and the palace complex constitutes the most complete remains of a Roman palace anywhere in the world. Diocletian (AD 244-311) was born in Dalmatia. From rather humble origins,
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From Russia With Love
The ruling family of Russia at the beginning of the 1900s were the Romanovs, related to the British Royal Family as were the crowned heads of other European countries. Queen Victoria had been known as the grandmother of Europe, and soon after 1901, K
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Northamptonshire
Michael Portillo’s television series Great British Railway Journeys has reminded audiences of the importance of Bradshaw’s Railway Guides in Victorian Britain and Pigot’s Directory was among those which performed the same function prior to the arriva
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The Savage Mountain
K2 attracts larger-thanlife figures. The first major expedition to it, in 1902, featured Aleister Crowley. Crowley was a superb climber, but not a team player. He slowed progress by insisting on bringing a small library all the way to base camp. Half

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