Britain
New plan for postal museum sees London home
The British Postal Museum and Archive will move to a larger home on the same street, in a £9 m...
GB: Pilot scheme
The set of eight stamps marking the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 1965 introduced a n...
Britain's most spectacular commemoratives: number 54 1985 Safety At Sea 17p
Which are the most striking special issues Britain has ever produced? To celebrate our 75th annivers...
Britain's most spectacular commemoratives: no53 1970 Commonwealth Games 5d
Which are the most striking special issues Britain has ever produced? To celebrate our 75th annivers...
Commonwealth
Natal: Last but not least
The stamps of Natal were not always inspired, but ended on a high note with the characterful 1902 po...
Australia: Victim of the paparazzi
A chance encounter in the remote Australian outback produced an iconic stamp image. And the first ch...
Egypt: Stamps to die for?
If you thought speculation fever made for some tense scenes in English post office queues in 1966, t...
Sierra Leone: Mixed message
An attractive early example of multicoloured stamp printing by Sierra Leone was turned into a chimae...
Canada: The accidental forger
A novice Canadian stamp dealer's remaindered stock was worth a small fortune, but his attempts to ma...
Europe
France: Seeds of an idea
They were far from universally popular when they first appeared in 1903, but in a 35-year lifespan F...
France: Femme fatale?
Critics in France thought the 1900 'Mouchon' definitive design appeared to promise a liaison dangere...
The Italian Machin
The Siracusana series broke with tradition by offering Italians a single-design definitive range, an...
West Germany: Fresco fiasco
When West Germany showed a medieval fresco on a stamp, nobody realised that portions of it were badl...
France: Divine intervention
When the winner of a prestigious French stamp design competition was found to be ineligible as a war...
World
USA: Politically corrected
The cornerstone of Franklin D Roosevelt’s 'New Deal' for Depression-hit America was celebrated with ...
China: Good money after bad
Strange issues of old China looked the part in 19th-century stamp albums. This one is still highly p...
Nicaragua: No smoke without fire
The Panama Canal is one of the engineering marvels of the world, yet its course was diverted by a po...
Nicaragua: No man's land?
Two central American nations almost went to war in 1937, over the usual points of conflict. You know...
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