Social Philately Began Before Facebook
The origins of "social philately" are credited to Australia back in the 1980s but it has since been adopted and grown in popularity across the world. What distinguishes social philately from other types of competitive philately is that displays may include normal philatelic items like postage stamps, covers and postal stationery together with all kinds of non-philatelic material or ephemera such as letters, maps, art prints, photos, coins, medals, newspaper clippings, formal documents etc. [...]
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New GB Machin Definitive Colours 2013
The Arnold Machin effigy of HM The Queen was first used in 1967 and, some 46 years on in 2013, Royal Mail are issuing nine new Machin definitives featuring a new palette of colours. [...]
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Royal Mail Welcomes The London 2012 Olympic Games
Here's a quick preview picture of the forthcoming Royal Mail miniature sheet produced to "welcome" the London 2012 Olympics on July 27th this year. Each of the four stamps contained in the sheet depicts an Olympic sport alongside a well known London landmark. [...]
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Bletchley Park Post Office Commemorates Sachin Tendulkar's Century of Centuries
Bletchley Park Post Office have commemorated Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international century with a special GB stamp issue. BPPO has previously issued many cricket flavoured limited edition collectables over the years - many of which were quickly sold out - and this latest event is undoubtedly a worthy subject to commemorate on stamps and covers. [...]
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Grab a Great Post and Go Faststamp Deal While it Lasts!
25 sets of the Post & Go faststamps issued as a tribute to Arnold Machin and issued exclusively at 2011 Autumn Stampex have been listed for sale today at just £9.25 per set! [...]
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Post & Go Stamps: The Error Argument Continues
A follow up regarding so called Post & Go stamp errors involving the overprinted rate and service information. [...]
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Spink Stamp Valuation Day Programme in the UK 2012
Spink hold a regular programme of valuation events around the UK and Worldwide and frequntly attend major fairs and exhibitions. Their programme of valuation days in the UK has been announced via their website. [...]
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What is a Cinderella Stamp?
In the philatelic world a cinderella stamp is usually defined as something which resembles a normal postage stamp that was not issued for official purposes by an official postal administration. As they are best defined by what they DO NOT represent, cinderella stamps can be broken up in to many specific sub-types of collectable label including poster stamps, propaganda labels, commemorative stickers, stamps issued by unrecognised nations and/or governments, court stamps, charity labels, Christmas seals, telegraph stamps, railway stamps, local stamps etc. [...]
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Redditch Philatelic Society Moves to New Venue
The Redditch Philatelic Society has moved to a new meeting venue at St Luke's Memorial Hall, Headless Cross, Redditch B97 4JX. Upcoming meetings in the new venue will feature a display of Postage due mail of Great Britain on 17th November and a single sheet competition on December 1st. [...]
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London 2012 Olympics - Royal Mail to Issue Special Stamps for Every TeamGB Gold Medal
Royal Mail has announced that special commemorative stamps will be issued to mark every British individual and team gold medal success at the London 2012 Olympics. [...]
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Birds of Britain (4) Post & Go stamps set - Coastal Birds
The fourth and final set of six pictorial Post & Go Stamps has continued featuring the beauty and variety of Britain's birdlife. [...]
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Timeline of Events in Global Postal History
Based on an article at Wikipedia, this is a rough timeline of various significant events in postal history, including dates relating to postage stamps. My aim is to gradually fill in gaps that exist in terms of British Postal history. [...]
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Birds on First Royal Mail Pictorial Post and Go Stamps
Popular garden birds will feature on the new Post & Go pictorial stamps to be made available on September 17th in a small number of Post Office branches and the Edinburgh Philatelic Bureau. Post & Go stamps will be the first of a Birds of Britain series of pictorial stamps planned for issue by self-service Post & Go terminals. [...]
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So What Are Royal Mail Smilers Stamps And Are They Worth Collecting?
Smilers offer you, me or anyone else the chance to get a photograph printed in a sheet format alongside valid postage stamps that you can choose. These stamps together with your personalised labels can then be used on regular mail, greetings cards etc. The Royal Mail also produce "generic" Smilers sheets and stamp industry names once primarily associated with only First Day Covers are also now producing customised sheets for collectors. [...]
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Delcampe Auctions Attending The Picture Postcard Show 2009
The specialist collectables auction website Delcampe will be attending The Picture Postcard Show 2009 in London between 3rd and 5th of September. [...]
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