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 TO STAMP COLLECTOR

WRITING IN THIS ISSUE

STAMP UPDATE

VIRTUAL STAMPEX 2023

IT’S (NOT) A MAN’S MAN’S WORLD

CRYPTO STAMPS: HOW AUSTRIAN POST SPARKED A GLOBAL FURORE

ROYAL MAIL ISSUE SWAP-OUT SCHEME REMINDER

CHINESE RABBIT STAMP BRANDED ‘SCARY’

THE KING’S COLLECTION ON DISPLAY

IN BRIEF

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR PHILATELIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

LIECHTENSTEIN AWARD GOES TO THREE PHILATELISTS

StampTube • Philatelist and YouTuber Graham Beck talks to Stamp Collector about why he decided to create philatelic videos and how ‘Exploring Stamps’ has expanded his world – including an encounter with a potty-mouthed parrot called Millie!

What goes around

Three-legged race

Good health, your Majesty!

New special stamp for Luxembourg

IN BRIEF

Life-saving stamps

Favourite Swiss stamp of 2022

Monsters of rock • With Royal Mail releasing a special set of Iron Maiden-themed stamps, Stamp Collector takes a break from playing air guitar to look at why heavy metal rules in the world of philately

THE STAMPS

It’s all too big • Not all collectables are as easy to store and showcase than others, observes Richard West. So shouldn’t Royal Mail give more thought to how collectors will house the items on offer?

MARKET INSIGHT • AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

STAMP DETECTIVE • 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

Trinidad stamps • Ed Fletcher sketches the history of Trinidad, from its first inhabitants to its first private postage stamps, and then to its official colonial issues from Queen Victoria to GeorgeVI

COLLECTORS’ CORNER

Greenland

Pale Colours

STAMP QUIZ • Test your stamp knowledge with our monthly quiz (Find the answers on page 36)

More Titanic Memorials

How the Penny Black licked illiteracy • The issue of the Penny Black in 1840 revolutionised communications and currency. Ed Fletcher looks at some of the nation’s newspaper columns from the days following the iconic stamp’s introduction.

Austria & Hungary • As he continues his philatelic travels across the Continent, David examines the stamp stories of Austria and Hungary, and sees how complex histories create collectable stamps

A rare sighting? • The Mauritius ‘POST OFFICE’ issue is almost as rare as the dodo, so discovering a new variety – albeit made by the hands of Sperati – is more than enough to get Devlan Kruck excited

John R Boker Jnr (1913-2003)

EXHIBITION NEWS

A tale of two revolutions • Chris West looks at science and the social upheaval in the story of the French scientist on this stamp, who was responsible for laying the foundations of modern chemistry, but found himself on the wrong side of when it came to political regimes

400th anniversary of the discovery of Newfoundland 1897 • In this set for your collection, David Bailey finds out how a King of England and a Venetian fugitive responded to the discoveries of Columbus

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