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.

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The Punk Philatelist • Known as The Punk Philatelist, Gerard McCullough is an Australian stamp blogger and collector on a mission to show that being a stamp nerd is cool. He tells Stamp Collector how stamps are a fascinating part of pop culture history – even more so now they’re often considered relics of the past

A quartet of royal visits

Classics of World Literature: Leo Tolstoy (1828−1910)

A show of hands

The last man on the moon

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EV origins

Quebec’s grande dame

Treasure trove • 100 years ago, the world was stunned by the treasures discovered when Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb was unearthed. Commemorating the centenary with a new Tutankhamun stamp set, Royal Mail has provided philatelists with a new hoard of treasures to collect

A question of prestige • Are prestige books really necessary? RichardWest questions whether they’re as special as they make out, especially for collectors of definitives

AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

Expensive chrysanthemums • 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

New Zealand’s 1940 Centennials, as singles and as a set • Ed Fletcher sketches the background to stamps that celebrated a century of progress and achievement in Great Britain’s most distant colonial territory

COLLECTORS’ CORNER

The last predecimals – part three • In the final part of his feature on countries that used £ s d values on their stamps before switching to decimal currencies, Ed Fletcher examines stamps from countries as diverse as Samoa and Zambia, and is inspired to look back on many of the predecimals issued before the change

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The Italian Peninsula • David Bailey’s philatelic tour of Europe continues apace, as he looks at therange of stamps from the unified Italy and from two micro-states that retained their independence

CURATOR’S PICK Hungary for inverts • Devlan Kruck takes a look at the iconic 1923 Madonna and Child inverted centre of Hungary, a stamp which has a growing number of philatelic fans

UN 2001 World Heritage sites, Japan • David Bailey shines a light on stamps that have been designed to showcase some of Japan’s World Heritage sites that may not be well-known, but offer stunning rewards to visitors (and philatelists!)

A celebration of British stamps! • The 'Great Britain: A History in Stamps' stamp album is now available, featuring stamp guides, beautiful stamp images, and space to add your own stamps.

The oldest wonder • Of all the Seven ‘AncientWonders of the World’, the Great Pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops, which was the Greek version of the Pharaoh’s name) is both the oldest and the only one still surviving, no wonder it has appeared on a variety of stamps, writes Chris West

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