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These are articles of value. Here you will come across information that will help you the user in terms of stamps and stamp collecting. Anything and everything stamp related, such as how to value stamps, glossary of stamp terminology, how to handle stamps, etc.

Origins of the Scott Catalogues

01/09/2019 Melise Richter 0

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 […]

Album AG

01/08/2019 Melise Richter 0

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

01/07/2019 Melise Richter 0

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 […]

Album AF

03/06/2019 Melise Richter 0

Watermarks and their Detection

01/05/2019 Melise Richter 3

  Stamps are printed on paper which sometimes has a watermark.  This watermark is created during the manufacture of the paper.  A dandy roll (which […]

Album AE

01/04/2019 Melise Richter 0

Stanley Gibbons and his Company

01/03/2019 Melise Richter 0

  To anyone involved in philately, Stanley Gibbons means the stamp catalogue we refer to constantly to identify our stamps.  But how did this catalogue […]

Album AD

05/02/2019 Melise Richter 0

The History of Post Boxes

02/01/2019 Melise Richter 0

The first red pillar post boxes in Great Britain were erected in Jersey in 1852. From 1857 wall post boxes appeared, especially in the rural […]

Album AC

04/12/2018 Melise Richter 0

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