Stamp Collector

Stamp Collector gives you all the information, news, expert advice, market insight and inspiration you need to build your stamp collection and get the most from your hobby. Every issue features the latest prices, expert collecting advice, in-depth guides giving you the lowdown on classic stamp sets, new stamps, postal history, first-day covers and much more. Our stamp stories shed light on intriguing stamps and why they were produced, and our stamp sidelines pages provide an insight into postmarks, first-day covers, Cinderellas, Post & Go and Europa stamps.

Stamp Collector

Welcome • A GOOD PHILATELIST NEVER STOPS LEARNING…

STAMP UPDATE

IN BRIEF

Under the rainbow – love and Pride • The Royal Mail’s new Pride stamp set celebrates how far the expanding LGBTQIA+ community event has come in 50 years of protest rallies and parties

Is it ‘Post & Gone’? • Post & Go initially grabbed the attention of collectors, with a range of varieties, designs and rates to pursue. Fourteen years later, Richard West wonders if the automated system ever really caught on with the general public and whether collectors are now losing interest in the stamps

MARKET INSIGHT

Latvian stamps (1918-1940) • Ed Fletcher summarizes Latvia’s early history and looks at recent asking and selling prices on some interesting and attractive examples issued and used in Latvia from the end of the First World War to the outbreak of the second global conflict

COLLECTORS’ CORNER

In a corner • In the first of a new series of columns, David Leathart guides us through some of the unique and unusual stamps produced during those pioneering days of theVictorian era, starting with plate numbers

Finland’s proud stamp history • In this quick country guide, Ed Fletcher looks at Finland’s early history and at some of its classic stamps and discovers how the Finns campaigned for their nation and their postage stamps

BACK TO SCHOOL • Your back to basics guide to philately

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Editor’s Note

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A symbol of unity • A leader became a legend for bringing peace to a warring region – now in turmoil five centuries later. Chris West looks at the reasons Stephen the Great of Moldovia is celebrated in stamps.

Chronicles of NOELLA BRY • A philatelic distraction based on real events, by Eva Mealing

Act Now • Has the time come for you … to do something different … ?