The Digital Philatelist

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

The Blériot XI airplane featured in this aviation stamp was the first to cross the English Channel and commemorates the formation of the Guatemala air force. Learn more about this aircraft with Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck.

View More Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.5- French Flying Machine