Fun with Stamps: How the Post is Carried Now (1958)
This is the first of a series of enjoyable articles extracted from "More Fun with Stamps" (1958) by Dianne Doubtfire & Kay Horowicz. We have cut the title down to "Fun with Stamps" on PDb as we do not have ...
Monday, September 21st, 2009
How to look after your Collection – A Basic Guide
[David R Beech, FRPSL, is Head of the Philatelic Collections at the British Library. This article is based on a Paper given at the 87th Philatelic Congress of Great Britain, Derby on 8th July, 2005] Introduction Many philatelists understand that they are ...
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
How To: Soaking Stamps
This is a video tutorial on preparing stamps for to be mounted in an album or collected in general on a shoe string budget. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...The Thrill of the ChaseA Colour Box (1935)Relax with ...
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Relax with Stamps
"So many compensations reward the stamp collector that it is difficult to decide which is the greatest benefit to accrue from his avocation. After all, the sheer delight which it affords justifies our interest, and brings ample returns to our ...
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Stamp Collecting in Indonesia (1976)
This article was originally published in the New Zealand "Stamp Collector", the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand (December, 1976). Almost everyone you meet in Indonesian office or business circles seems to collect stamps. There is keen ...
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
The Joy of Collecting World Stamps
We are proud to publish the second of two winners in our recent essay competition. We liked them so much that we decided to award two first prize winners. Both authors were enthusiastic about their stamp collecting. We hope you ...
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The Pleasures of Stamp Collecting (1975)
[This article originally appeared in the New Zealand Stamp Collector, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand. It is republished by kind permission of the Society.] Investment The Royal Philatelic Society was privileged recently to hear an interesting ...
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The Thrill of the Chase
We are proud to publish the first of two winners in our recent essay competition. We liked them so much that we decided to award two first prize winners. Both authors were enthusiastic about their stamp collecting. We hope you ...
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Understanding the Elements of Stamp Grading
Stamp collectors are faced with a myriad of terms and symbols to describe the stamps they are considering for purchase. And when operating within a modern landscape of online dealing and often internationally thanks to the www, a further layer ...
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Whose Line UK – Stamp Collecting Rap
The original improv classic Whose Line is it Anyway? chose philately as the subject for this clever rap. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...The Pleasures of Stamp Collecting (1975)Stamp Collecting in Indonesia (1976)Armand Rousso on Stamp Collecting
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Why I Love Collecting Queensland
There are many philatelic commonalities amongst the different areas that we all collect. To explain further, if we collect Postal History or stamps of a particular country or period, then our individual reasons for collecting them will in general be ...
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
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