ook away if you suffer from coulrophobia, or fear of clowns, because in the coming three pages you will be facing your worst nightmare. You are about to be slapped in the face, not with a custard pie, but, striking terror into the hearts of coulrophobic philatelists everywhere, with images not just of clowns, but clowns on stamps. The week of 1-7 August is International Clown Week, and in America, 7 August is National Clown Day, so let’s lets lace up our slap shoes, pull on our big clown’s pants and tiptoe through the tulips of a thematic that is either happy and jolly (if you like
