1. Machin missing value error Update - 2008 GB dealer prices being asked for the recent missing £ sign error on the £2.00 high value Machin definitive - first issued on July 1, 2003 - have almost triples in recent years with prices being asked for the cylinder block of six up from £90 to £275 ...
2. Machin missing value error emerges - 2005 The first ever missing value error in the 36-year history of the British Machin series has recently cropped up via a missing £ sign on the recently issued high value £2.00 slate blue definitive.
3. Methods of Stamp Collecting
Stamp collecting, for the uninitiated, is the collection of stamps from around the globe. Technically, it is called a philatelic collection. And if you think it’s a hobby for kids and weird ones, you’ll be surprised at how many people, great and ...
4. Modern Day Stamp Collecting
The first postage stamp, the "Penny Black", was issued by Great Britain (United Kingdom) in 1840. Postage stamps were introduced as a means of prepaying for mail delivery. Prior to this innovation, mail was paid for by the addressee when it was d...
6. Mauritius "Post Office" Error
When a young French boy went through correspondence files in 1902, he could not realize that he was going to happen upon one of philately’s greatest rarities. He was searching through a batch of dusty letters when he saw a cover franked with 1 pe...
7. Mr Men Stamps
Guernsey has issued a set of six stamps honouring the characters in the "Mr. Men and Little Miss" children's books and television series.
8. Moon Mail
The three astronauts – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins – onboard the historic 1969 Apollo 11 space mission, which landed the first men on the Moon, took a die for a postage stamp showing them setting foot on the Moon’s surface.
9. Missing Stamp Mystery.
The mystery surrounds an issue from Swaziland, produced in 1956. It was a pictorial definitive, with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, in values for postage/revenue up to £1. However the set also included a £5 revenue stamp in the design t...
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