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 […]

This album was very small, containing less than 200 stamps.  There were however a few stamps from territories we had not had before, namely British […]

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

    Welcome back to our journey.  In the beginning, we had to sort out pre-printed albums where the stamps were mainly stuck into the […]

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

Here we are again. This album is fairly small, with bits and pieces from many existing territories.  We did, however find stamps from a few […]

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 […]

We welcome you once again to our journey of discovery through stamps from the last 150 years.  Old or new, they are always fascinating.  Sorting, […]

Many stamps have the initials UPU printed on them.  This stands for Universal Postal Union.  But what is the Universal Postal Union?  I decided to […]