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The End 18 Nov 2011 | 11:03 pm
Oh dear, the title sounds rather ominous, but don't worry, it isn't really. Yes, it does mean that this is the end of this blog. But fear not: I have been invited to start blogging for Stamp Magazine...
Roll on 2012 ! 13 Nov 2011 | 12:46 am
Ooh, yes, 2012 is going to be a great year for GB issues! And I haven't said that since 1999! We had already had the fantastic news about those great Olympic definitives, which will be issued on 5 Jan...
I see green 31 Oct 2011 | 11:17 pm
Well well well. I only recently reported on a major change in the French definitives (see here), and here's yet another one! This is turning out to be a very nice and varied set! I'm not totally in th...
ECSC 16 Oct 2011 | 08:41 pm
I've mentioned the ECSC before, the European Coal and Steel Community, founded in 1952 when the general idea in Europe was that economic cooperation was so much better than isolationism or even war. A...
Purrfect (sorry!) 7 Oct 2011 | 07:42 pm
Just a short note today. I love cats and as such I've always been interested in cats on stamps. Downside? They're pretty much all horrific. I can't think of a single cat stamp I like! Until now, that ...
Untitled 29 Sep 2011 | 07:42 pm
Gentlemen I believe it was the Dutch engraver Sem Hartz who once said when talking about recess-printed stamps that they are the gentlemen among stamps. And how true is that! He had just as outspoken ...
Untitled 25 Sep 2011 | 08:04 pm
Indulging Forgive me but I've just received another batch of wonderful Europa stamps, from my dear friend Paulo, so I can't help myself, but I just have to show some of them to you. They make me feel ...
Untitled 22 Sep 2011 | 07:30 pm
Errare humanum est I've just finished a few features on errors in philately, so I'm probably still very much focused on that, but it's not why I bought this set. I only got it because I thought they l...
Untitled 18 Sep 2011 | 08:24 pm
In dreams... What is it with that woman? Why is it that I'm always enchanted by Victoria on stamps? Must be something Freudian! But once again I just had to give in and get the latest GB issue from Ro...
Untitled 2 Sep 2011 | 07:41 pm
Europa I've always thought it an enormous shame that the CEPT countries decided to let go of the "one design for all" principle. Since then, the CEPT stamps have just become like all the other issues,...
