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1. Military stamps Military stamp, is a postage stamp used by a military organisation, in time of war, or while ensuring a peace keeping operation.
21/11/2008 | 0 comment(s) | Read more...

2. Moving Post Offices A Moving Post Office is a type of mail train where the post is sorted en-route. This system is known as TPO (Travelling Post Office) in United Kingdom and RPO (Railway Post Office) in USA.
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3. Marcophilately Marcophilately known as Marcophily is the specialised study and collection of postmarks, postal markings and cancellations applied by hand or machine on mail that passes through a postal system and applied by the postal operator through whose domain ...
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4. 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 ...
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5. 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.
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6. 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 ...
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7. 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...
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8. Miniature sheets A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed.
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9. 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...
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10. 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.
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