Articles by Melise Richter

Since starting to sort our collections, I have tried to discover as much as possible about the origins of stamp collecting and the people involved.  […]

Why do people collect stuff? My grandad was an inveterate stamp collector.  As a child I remember him spending his time soaking and sorting stamps.  […]

I recently came across a very interesting video on YouTube about stamp designers I give thanks to the National Postal Museum, located in Washington DC […]

What are Europa stamps and why are they issued?  As a novice stamp collector I decided to find out more about these beautiful stamps. The […]

The Machin series of Stamps refers to the main definitive series of British stamps used since June 1967.  It is a very popular topic amongst […]

One of the first things you will notice on a modern stamp is that the edges contain teeth.  When stamps first appeared, they had plain […]

  For as long as man has existed, he has used ways of sending messages.  Historians regard a hand-stamp to frank a mailed item in […]

The Scott Catalogue has 6 volumes which cover stamps from all the countries that have ever issued stamps.  The numbering system is used almost exclusively […]

The last album and the next few are small albums.  The reason for this is that all the stamps we are now sorting and cataloguing […]

When cataloguing our German stamps, I realised that stamps issued in 1921 had low values in marks, (up to 50 mark surcharges), but in 1922 […]