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.

This is How The Stamp Trade Works • Philatelic Expert Lets You into his Selling Secrets so you can benefit from a totally different (and New) Selling Experience

Stamp Collector

WELCOME TO STAMP COLLECTOR

CRIMEA BRIDGE DESTRUCTION ON NEW STAMP

NEW GUERNSEY STAMPS FEATURE KING CHARLES III CYPHER

TEN HIGHLIGHTS FROM STAMPEX 2022

BRITISH FORCES PHILATELIC SERVICE CLOSES

ROWLAND HILL MEDAL OPEN FOR VOTES

RECORD SALES FOR COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE

IRELAND ADOPTS DIGITAL STAMP

IN BRIEF

USA REVEAL 2023 STAMP SUBJECTS

‘STOP THE STAMP SWAP’ CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

The President’s perspective • One of the most eminent British revenue philatelists, Peter Cockburn is the President of the Royal Philatelic Society London. He tells Stamp Collector’s Tina Jackson about his life in stamps and the changes he’s seen in philately over the years

The last butterfly (in the series)

Wetlands wonderland

The wooden houses of Planken

Celebrating the world’s longest stamp series

Vagrant Species

IN BRIEF

Jersey’s black history

Faroese minerals

Clay-mazing stamps • Aardman’s endearing stop-motion animations have not just made their way into the public’s affections, but onto Royal Mail’s adorable new stamp set

Sticky situation • Self-adhesive stamps rely on an unstable element – the glue. In his latest GB column, Richard West outlines what happens when self-adhesives come unstuck

AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS • PRICES INCLUDE BUYER’S PREMIUM UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

Mozambique Airmail • Our philatelic private eye spies another stamp set that’s likely to go up in value

LATEST INTERNET SALES • Your quick reference guide to recent online sales, in association with delcampe.net

Air Stamps Set depicting a Curtiss biplane? • Ed Fletcher briefly recounts the story of the discovery of a single sheet of the 24 cents blue and carmine value with its central vignette printed upside down in error. It gave the stamp collecting world the renowned Inverted Curtiss Jenny. He then looks at non-inverted values from the set, and reports on recent sales

Ukrainian unlisted stamps

STAMP QUIZ • Test your stamp knowledge with our monthly quiz (answers on page 44)

The many faces of the Machin

Searching for Nessie

SOCIETY NEWS

From king to villain

The last predecimals • Ed Fletcher offers the first part of an illustrated list of the last issues in sterling values before most former colonies opted for decimal values on their stamps

Andorra, France and Monaco • This month, David Bailey looks across the channel to find a principality with French and Spanish stamps, some new ways of collecting France and an ancient ruling dynasty at odds with the modern world.

French philately: alternative avenues

Monaco: the philately of the principality

INTERESTING & UNUSUAL

The power of words • Writer and conservationist Rachel Carson paved the way for modern ecological awareness, and well deserves her commemoration with a ‘Great American’ stamp, says Chris West

Rowland Hill Medal • In this special feature created with the help of...