August 2023

Stamp Collector

Expert advice and guides to help you build your collection

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Stamp Collector
PUBLISHING Publisher: Matt Hill EDITORIAL Editor: Matt Hill matthewh@warnersgroup.co.uk Assistant Editor: Tina Jackson tjackson@warnersgroup.co.uk Contributors: Brian Austin, David Bailey, Christer Brünstrom, Michael Burzan, Maurice Buxton, Dane Garr
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Welcome To Stamp Collector
The ‘Clash of Empires’ exhibition being held at the Royal Philatelic Society London this month is a fantastic example of how our hobby is a reflection of our world and its history, and how the items we collect and study can tell fascinating, importan
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Stamp Update
Royal Mail recently launched eight stamps to mark the 75th Anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush to the UK, at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton. The MV Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury on 21 June 1948 and its passengers
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In Brief
The ABPS national stamp competition entries will be on show at the York Stamp Fair this year on 21 and 22 July. Entries in all classes will be on view. The York event takes is held at The Grandstand, York Racecourse, York YO23 1EX. Find out more at:
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Wartime Dispatches
Alex Haimann was a junior philatelist on a family holiday to the UK when his fascination with the Anglo-Zulu War was first sparked. ‘The stamp collector in me knew I had just arrived in the birthplace of the postage stamp and so much more!’ he rememb
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Peace Doves And More
The 1961 joint issue series with ‘doves of peace’ from the countries participating in the Europa CEPT community includes values from Belgium, France, Germany Federal Republic, Greece, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain,
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In Brief
Korea Post recently issued a set of stamps to celebrate the 10th anniversary of K-pop band BTS. The ten stamps feature images of the pop group’s album covers along with photographs of the band themselves. According to reports pre-sales of the stamps
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Changing Tastes
The 1960s saw a major change to British stamp design. Soon to be history were singlecoloured stamps with symbolic designs. From the tentative two-colour Europa pair of 1960 more colours were used to print stamps and relatively soon came the nine-colo
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Market Insight
PRICES INCLUDE BUYER’S PREMIUM UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED David Feldman auction house in Geneva recently offered ‘one of the most important Japanese stamp collections’ including the most valuable stamp of Asia: the 500 mon inverted centre. An Asian gent
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Hammer Of The Stamps
The most popular table-top game in the history of gaming is celebrated in the Royal Mail’s new Warhammer special set of six stamps, which marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic wargame. Warhammer was first developed in 1983 by Games Workshop subsid
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Dubai’s First Issue Proves Elusive
Dubai is one of the seven sheikdoms making up the United Arab Emirates. When stamps were first issued in 1963, Dubai was far from the prosperous state it is today. The transformation into one of the most important commercial and trade centres in the
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Latest Internet Sales
France, Letter franked 2x 40c rare diamond dot cancellation from Honfleur 1905 to Paris Great Britain, £5 orange QV 1867-83 cancelled London Belgian Congo, 25c blue Mols 1894 reingraved frame (with cert.) Austria, registered letter from Vienna 1933 b
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New Zealand’s 1935-36 definitives
As regular readers will know, in addition to discussing the designs, this regular feature also suggests fair prices to pay for individual stamps or the full set. When pricing stamps we need to consider several variables including rarity, quality and
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A Brief History Of Curaçao
The island of Curaçao, which was first settled by Awarak people from the South American mainland, was colonised by Spain in 1527, and governed by Spain from Venezuela. The Spanish imported many non-resident species to Curaçao, but although some thriv
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An Austrian Colour Error
The greatest rarities among Austria’s 1867 issues with the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I in a medallion are the misprints with a face value of 3 kr. This most expensive variety of the country was produced in red instead of green when a printing
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Collectors’ Corner
CINDERELLAS The world of Cinderella stamps is particularly rich in items which puzzle many collectors, writes Christer Brunström. There are multiple reasons why they are difficult to identify, including writing in unfamiliar languages or unknown acro
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Bulgaria 1911 definitives
The first Bulgarian Empire (681-1018) was conquered by the Byzantines, who then ruled for nearly 200 years. The second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396) was conquered by the Ottomans, who then ruled for nearly 500 years. In 1877, Bulgaria fought alongside
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The Man Who Split The Atom
Ernest Rutherford was born in 1871 in a small town in New Zealand. His father was a practical, hands-on wheelwright who later built and ran flax mills. His mother was a teacher, with a passionate belief in the power of education. As an experimental p
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Paraguay For Philatelists
The landlocked South American nation of Paraguay is seldom in the news and it is very possibly not one of the more popular countries in philatelic circles despite – or perhaps rather because of – its huge production of pictorial stamps, but the count
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Curaçao: Stamps for the ‘Slave Island’
Some 150 years have passed since Curaçao’s first postage stamps were put into circulation. With an area of 171 square miles, slightly less than Andorra, the island in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles is one of the world’s smallest countries. Following a
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Clowning About With Stamps
Look 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 coulroph
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World Heritage Sites
The idea of World Heritage Sites emerged out of a crisis. Construction of the Aswan High Dam on the river Nile in Egypt, which had begun in 1960, was threatening to inundate the monuments and temples in the river valley. Amongst these, the temples of
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Stamp Surveillance
Radar is an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging. The history of this vital and multi-use technology dates back to the 1880s, but the first genuine break-through came during World War I when Scottish inventor, Robert Wilson-Watt, realised that rad
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Stamped To Order Postal Stationery
‘Postal stationery’ as a philatelic term refers to envelopes, cards etc that have a stamp directly printed onto them to pay the postage. As has often been noted, this was Rowland Hill’s original idea for implementing prepayment for Penny Postage, wit
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Rail, Mail And Robbery
How did you become involved in the TPO Group? I have lived some 10 miles from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for nearly 60 years and occasionally took my daughter and more recently my grandchildren there for family days out. Since 198
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Family Ties In Blighty During WW2
It’s a custom throughout the world in many, if not most, civilisations for given names for children to sometimes be the same as parents, or grandparents. For names that are well known in the UK, then the given name Robert in the family of Bruce will
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Chronicles of NOELLA BRY
Doctor Grant carefully continued caring for the stricken Theodor Buhl, who remained unconscious and immobile upon the surgeon’s surgical table. Without taking his eyes from the patient the doctor explained to the two journalists the immediate danger

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