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Stamp Collecting for Beginners

You do not have to be rich to collect stamps! There are many ways of obtaining stamps inexpensively. Firstly decide what you wish to collect. The obvious choice is your own country, as you are more likely to obtain material because of availability.

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Roald Dahl Celebrated on Royal Mail’s Stamps 10th January 2012

Stamps of the United States: Golden Gate Exposition (1939)

Australia: Maryborough Post Office, Queensland 4650 (2012)

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Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Queen Elizabeth II, 1st Royal Tour: Melbourne, Australia 1954

Given that this is the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, we have decided to include a number of videos throughout this year. This one shows her visit to Melbourne and you will also see the former General Post Office in Melbourne at the time.

We shall also be publishing a number of articles on Elizabethan stamps to celebrate the Jubilee.

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Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Philatelic Crossword: Stamps of British Commonwealth #1

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Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Collecting Disney Stamps

Disney topical collectors have it easier than most. They do not have to use a magnifier to see if that little speck beside the barn on a stamp is a cat or not. They do not have to decide if the post horn in the Europa symbol belongs in the music col1ection, and rarely do they have to break a set to get the one stamp they need for their topic.

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Saturday, January 21st, 2012

America’s Smallest Post Office, Wheeler Springs, California

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Disney in the News at the American Topical Association

Zeppelin Stamps: German Gasbags

Count von Zeppelin’s airships were sinister to Britons but glamorous to Germans, so it’s no surprise that they were a popular theme for Teutonic poster stamps.

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Marie, Dowager Queen of Romania (1937)

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Philatelic Crossword: January 2012

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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

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