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We thought 2012 was all over - new gold Machin security stamp! 24 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Last year, the year of the Diamond Blue 1st class stamps, we were surprised by the appearance in the spring of the 1st class book of 12 stamps containing gold stamps coded M12L/MTIL. This was the onl...
De La Rue 2013 stamp printings with and without printing date, sheet number 22 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
As reported on 17 July the new tariff stamps from the spring, originally printed by Walsall with year code M13L were later printed by De La Rue with year code MA13 as intended. At that time we had th...
Temporary delays in responding and dealing with orders. 19 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
From 19-26 August there may be some delay in our dealing with emails, blog comments, and customer orders, due to a combination of family matters, public holidays, and the power authority shutting off ...
Christmas is coming - only 130 collecting days to go! 16 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Well much fewer if you are thinking of the Christmas issue from Royal Mail, which will be issued on 5 November 2013. This year the theme reverts to Religious with the stamps depicting again the art o...
Scotland 88p country definitive stamp - new cylinders, or just redrawn numbers? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
The postage rate increase in the spring required new country definitives, as well as Machins. The Scotland 88p was printed on 14/01/13 with cylinders C1 phosphor, silver, yellow, magenta, cyan and bl...
More Machin stamps - 1st Large from booklets has appeared 12 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
The 1st class Large booklet has now made an appearance in supermarkets in the south. Now on our shop here. Cylinder details: cylinder number W2 (red), W1 (phosphor), W1 iridescent.
Australia 'GB' Faststamps - how many produced? 9 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
I'm trying to establish the highest session number used on machine B1 to produce the UK versions of these stamps. This is for Machin and Union Flag stamps. This is the version inscribed World Stamp ...
Auto Legends Stamps available from Tuesday 13th, not Monday 19th August 8 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
As we have indicated in our earlier blogpost and on our webpage, the British Auto Legends set of 6 and miniature sheet will be issued next Tuesday, 13th August. This is also the information on Royal ...
Stamp round-up; reports from our correspondents 6 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
Reports from our readers on recent - and future stamp issues. Freshwater Lakes 25 June "Darley Street PO Bradford the new labels had not even been inserted. Apparently thee was a fault with its ala...
Stamp Fair in Norwich tomorrow, Saturday 3rd August 2 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Norfolk & Norwich Philatelic Society STAMP & POSTCARD FAIR Saturday 3rd August 2013 10 am to 4.30pm Middle School Hall - Hewett School Gate 1, Cecil Road (off Hall Road or Ipswich Road) NORWI...
