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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

Exploring Stamps takes a look at the Zimbabwe Bird, a national emblem that appears on stamps, military uniforms and the flag. Then we examine the Mbira, a musical instrument, finally we discuss a little history about Zimbabwe when it was known as Rhodesia as well as the hyperinflation that occurred…

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.12 – Zimbabwe Postage Stamps

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

Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck visits the island of Malta in the Mediterranean through Stamps commemorating the Chess Olympiad held there in 1980.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.12 – Malta Chess Stamps

Exploring Stamps looks at the early exploration of Antarctica by Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott, Ellsworth, Wilkes and others as featured on stamps.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.11 – Antarctic Exploration Stamps

The controversy surrounding the British Monarch as head of state in Australia is as old as the country itself depicted in these early stamps including the Roo Stamp and valuable King George V stamp. Learn more with Exploring Stamps.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.9 – Australia’s First Stamp