Author: James Gavin

This is a video, Stamps with Sara looks at an Australian stamp issued in 2011 for the Floral Festival. It shows jacaranda mimosifolia.

View More Stamps with Sara: Jacaranda – Floral Festival

Stamps with Sara talks about the stamp released in 2005 named as “Weebissakara chaithya, Ambuluwawa”.

View More Stamps with Sara: Ambuluwawa chaithya

Stamps played a key role in WW2 Missions in 1945. Operation Cornflakes was set in motion by the OSS as they sought new ways to distribute black propaganda. Learn more about a Hitler stamp that Graham Beck of Exploring Stamps pulled from his box and witness a mission take place…

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 3/Ep.16 – Operation Cornflakes

Impatiens Repens is an endemic plant in Sri Lanka which has a beautiful flower. This video may impress people who love collect stamps and also love plants.

View More Stamps with Sara: Impatiens Repens – Galdemata – Ceylon balsam

An Australian Antarctic Territory stamp gets a discussion going about claiming sovereignty over land and who owns Antarctica. Discover the Antarctic Territory with Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 3/Ep.8 – Antarctic Territories

A stamp celebrating Toronto sparks a conversation about the three pence beaver, Canada’s first postage stamp. Graham Beck of Exploring stamps takes a quick trip to Toronto to find out where the imagery from the stamp comes from.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.15 – Canada’s first stamp

The jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald is the subject for this episode of Exploring Stamps, we take a look at the black heritage stamp series that she is featured on as well as the career of Ella.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.11 – Jazz Icon Ella Fitzgerald

North Korea threatens the West using propaganda postage stamps that look like posters. Join Graham Beck of Exploring Stamps as he takes a look at the various symbols used by the North Korean government to send messages to it’s people and the rest of the world.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.10 – Message from North Korea

Lighthouse stamps are very popular with stamp collectors. Exploring Stamps goes to Sandy Hook to learn more about America’s oldest working lighthouse and the incredible history of how it has survived.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.4 – USA Lighthouse Stamps

Exploring Stamps looks at how it all began – the invention of the first postage stamp known as the Penny Black. Follow him as he uncovers this interesting story and it changed the world.

View More Exploring Stamps: First Postage Stamp – The Penny Black