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In this month's issue:
Exclusive behind-the-scenes look at
Royal Mail's Cathedrals stamps
Why Malta's first issue stayed in use for 25 years
The story of one man's obsession with errors
The dramatic tale behind Newfoundland's first airmail overprints
The possibilities are infinite: maths on stamps
How the votes-for-women campaign turned to postal terrorism
The Red Mercury, Austria's rare newspaper stamp
World War II patriotic labels lauding the Navy's hard work
Why mourning stamps for the King of Laos were 18 months late
How a fascination with all things Egyptian led a collector to discover
its little known postal system
PLUS
News & views
157 new issues
Your questions answered
The staff at Stamp Magazine toasted Penny Black Day
with a glass of champagne.
Tuesday was the 168th anniversary of the introduction of the world's
first postage stamp on May 6, 1840.
Sir Rowland Hill’s bright idea, to allow for the pre-payment of
postage by way of an adhesive stamp, led to a communications revolution.
It also led to the creation of the world’s finest hobby, philately,
whose exponents love the history, geography and design awareness they
can learn from stamps.
Editor Guy Thomas says: 'May 6 is a key date in the history of worldwide
communication, and it deserves to be celebrated, not least as a way
of raising public awareness of philately.'
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