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Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!

The depicted letter from Edinburgh to neighbouring Leith was handstamped 'TOO LATE' indicating that it had been posted late and held back until the next collection. As a result, the sender's wishes on that Christmas evening did not reach the…
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My One-Page Exhibit Programme in its 5th year!

We've picked it up from the American Philatelic Society (APS) webpage: Literally, a single page, either 8.5” x 11” or 11” x 17” in size, or A4 and A3 in international sizes, the exhibit represents an accessible way for philatelic exhibiting…
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Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!

The illustration was taken from the front side of a 1936 postcard, produced by the Brazilian airline Syndicato Condor, which advertised the trip from Brazil to Europe in just two days in cooperation with Lufthansa. It was picked up from Alexios…
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A visit to the Royal (RPSL) – A video by Exploring Stamps

Nicola Davis, Head of Collections at the Royal Philatelic Society London, introduces us to the oldest philatelic society in the world and its magnificent premises. The seven-storey building on 15 Abchurch Lane was built in 1915 and has been…
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A letter… Remember?

"Writing letters and cards to your friends and family is still a great way of communicating. We're just saying." This was the accompanying caption to a GPO advertising poster of the '60s in last July's tweet by the Postal Museum, London. Wouldn't…
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Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last

From The New York Times, 9 March 2023. Bryn Stole reported from London, Berlin and Oldenburg, Germany. In a love letter from 1745 decorated with a doodle of a heart shot through with arrows, María Clara de Aialde wrote to her husband, Sebastian,…
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Crypto stamps in NFT format

Have you heard about crypto stamps or the NFT virtual stamps? The latest issue of Philatelia Lusitana includes a short but comprehensive article signed by the CTT (Portuguese Post) that explains the story. The CTT is only the 8th European Post…
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The Museum of Romanian Records in the heart of Bucharest

The Museum of Romanian Records is perhaps better known to the public for its incredible collections of trivets, corkscrews, and vintage cameras. However, its philatelic section is spectacular. It is spread out in 800 giant custom-made frames,…
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A short video on the intaglio process by Musée de La Poste

Musée de La Poste, Paris, celebrates the European Days of Crafts from 27 March to 2 April. Given the opportunity, it presents on its website all we need to learn about producing postage stamps by intaglio with a three-minute video which focuses…
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Treasures from the Smithsonian National Postal Museum

The Collectors Club, New York, had invited Elliot Gruber, Director of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, to make a presentation on camera. On 4th January, the Museum Director showed a number of the most elusive and diverse items of the…
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Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!

In 1993, the British Christmas stamps celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. Within a week of its publication some 6000 copies of the book had been sold at five shillings each. Dickens…
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A video by Graham Beck on Incredible Rarities at the British Library

Graham Beck of Exploring Stamps YouTube channel has produced a superb 13 min video on the Philatelic Collections of the British Library. In the video, Paul Skinner, Lead Curator, and Richard Morel, Curator, are talking about the Philatelic Collections…
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The Liechtenstein Postal Museum in Vaduz

We are invited by the website of the Liechtenstein Postal Museum (Liechtensteinische PostMuseum) to admire every stamp issued by Liechtenstein (since 1912). The museum is home to a wide range of exhibits and documents providing insight into…
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Statistics: What is the cost of mailing a letter in Europe?

A very interesting survey by the Deutsche Post on the current prices of mail in Europe was presented yesterday on the pages of the Spanish Federation (FESOFI). The Deutsche Post has compared letter mail prices in the 27 member states of the…
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Legendary Marianne at the Musée de la Poste, Paris

"Marrianne, les visages de la République" is an exhibition at the Musée de la Poste, scheduled to remain open until September 2023. Marianne is a female figure which dates back into the years of the French Revolution, appears continuously…
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Exhibitor Hazel Elmslie is making history at CAPEX 22

CAPEX 22 opened at 9 am, on Thursday 9 June, as expected. Early in the next morning, the organisers sent a report of the opening day with a lot of photos, where from we picked up the most extraordinary story for a remarkable lady philatelist…
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Simple Marketing Lessons from CORREOS, the Spanish Post

CORREOS, the Spanish Post, has been a regular advertiser in the FEPA News magazine for quite some time. Their Creative Team surprises us every six or twelve months when they send in a different advertisement, each time a simple concept, a brand…
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The “World of Stamps” is travelling around Spain

The week following Easter, a travelling exhibition reached the city of Ourense in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain, organised by the Spanish Federation (FESOFI) and sponsored by the Spanish Post (Correos). It has toured Spain since…
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The work of British stamp designer Marjorie Saynor

A short story uploaded on the Postal Museum (London) website by Ms. Georgina Tomlinson, Deputy Curator, Philately, introduced us to Marjorie Saynor (1924-2012), an artist, who submitted stamp designs to the Royal Mail during the 70s and the…
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The Postal Museum (Postimuseo) in Tampere, Finland

Opened to the public in 1927 in Helsinki, the Postimuseo has moved to Tampere in 2014. Learn more about the Postal Museum of Finland from the museum's website. Just to get an idea, we copied the following from the Introduction at the "Collections"…
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The Hamburg Philatelic Library: fifty years of service

The Library was established in 1971 when several Hamburg stamp associations and the “Schleswig-Holstein Postal History and Philately” working group joined their literature holdings. Today the Hamburg Philatelic Library with its counterparts…

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