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.

This is How The Stamp Trade Works • Philatelic Expert Lets You into his Selling Secrets so you can benefit from a totally different (and New) Selling Experience

Stamp Collector

A WONDERFUL HOBBY… WITH A GLOBAL APPEAL

Writing in this issue…

THE SHOW DID GO ON!

EXHIBITION RESULTS

MEMORIAL LECTURE ON CARIBBEAN POSTAL HISTORY

Celebrate the Platinum Jubilee and win! • The latest All About Stamps Competition is now open! This time, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we’re asking you to create a one-page display using stamps issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

EBAY REDUCES FEE STRUCTURE

IN BRIEF

COLLECTORS REACT TO ‘BARCODED’ STAMPS NEWS

Machin portrait graces Canadian design

Safety belt stamps

Seafood stamps

IN BRIEF

Island cuisine on Post & Go

Explorer extraordinaire

Motor-racing legends

Butterfly gardening

Platinum postage • Royal Mail celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II with a new set of eight stamps that recall moments in her long reign

MARKET INSIGHT • AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

The Bhor State Primitives • 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

Danzig air post stamps • Ed Fletcher summarizes Danzig’s fascinating early history before checking recent sales for guidance on what you might pay to add Danzig air stamps and covers to your collection

Caldey Island

STAMP QUIZ • Test your stamp knowledge with our monthly quiz

FDC fun and games

SOCIETY NEWS

Saving the children

Update from Spain

Behind the complexity • David Bailey looks behind the catalogue to see how Zealand went from off-the-shelf solutions to stamps it could call its own, many of which are now considered classics

The sweet and the bitter • In Britain around the year 1876, a £5 Orange stamp was equivalent to about £1,000 in today’s money, writes Devlan Kruck. So why was it ever issued? A remarkable collection explains this and much more about the British classic

Eminent Philatelists Alfred H. Caspary (1877-1955)

EXHIBITION NEWS

Southern Rhodesia • In this collecting guide Ed Fletcher provides historical background to the former colony of Southern Rhodesia, and selects some interesting stamps issued between 1890 and 1950, noting that creating a collection doesn’t have to be as expensive as you think

Mauritius definitives 1950 • David Bailey discovers how a move to modernise stamp design and production matched a new mood on the island, with the result being a classic set for today’s collectors to pursue

The longest road in the world • Postage stamps have often showcased a country’s engineering achievements and the ‘road’ and ‘bridge’ themes remain hugely popular, so surely any stamp depicting a highway 19,000 miles in length should take pride of place in a collection. Chris West certainly thinks so

LONDON 2022 GALLERY • The London 2022 International Stamp Exhibition took place over eight days in Islington, and saw...