The most specialised aspects of philately can be mystifying to most collectors. Head of Stanley Gibbons‘ Commonwealth Department, George James sheds light on a stamp’s journey from painting to postman. Watch HERE.
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Ted Tyszka is the host and producer of the YouTube series, Ted Talks Stamps. His videos have contributed greatly to the digital content available to collectors. In this Stamp Chat, Tyska will share what it takes to create a philatelic channel: what inspired him to take this leap, how he…
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Why should anyone collect stamps? As collectors and American Philatelic Society members know, everyone has a unique story of how they started. The movie “Freaks and Errors: A Rare Collection” follows a group of collectors, looking to find common threads amongst those who cherish stamps. The Summer of Stamps festival…
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Discover the perilous production journey of the 1953 Coronation air letter. Printed first by McCorquodale in uncut sheets of eight, sent to Harrison for application of the simulated stamp, returned to McCorquodale for gumming and guillotining … disasters were inevitable.
View More Zany About Stamps: 1953 Coronation Air Letter DisastersKorea is a region in East Asia. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. During the first half of the first millennium, Korea was divided between the three competing states of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, together known as the Three Kingdoms of…
View More KoreaPuerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and from 1898 to 1932 also called Porto Rico in English, an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea. It is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles including the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such…
View More Puerto RicoCuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba (Isla de Cuba) as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean and is part of the Greater Antilles. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited…
View More CubaThe Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of the Europeans. The…
View More Dominican RepublicHaiti, officially the Republic of Haiti (République d’Haïti), formerly founded as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the…
View More HaitiTristan da Cunha is a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world. The territory consists of the inhabited island, Tristan da Cunha, the wildlife reserves of Gough Island and Inaccessible Island, and the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands.…
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