The Post Box

As a child I would spend several weeks during the Summer holidays in Bournemouth, a large and reasonably well- heeled...

A few weeks ago an experienced philatelist admitted to problems he was having in identifying the chalky paper version...

Sometimes discovering philatelic errors is easy, particularly when examples have been identified and are accurately d...

Behind my desk, wedged between our specialized reference collection of Bermuda large key plate stamps and an unsteady...

We are proudly displaying, on the front cover of our latest Sandafayre catalogue, three rather splendid and very diff...

I got married three weeks ago! Just one of several unusual experiences from a recent trip to America – and no, Elvis ...

The 1920s and early 1930s saw the expansion of Pioneering Flights extend to non stop distance records and internation...

The Posta Europea, a privately owned postal service in Lower Egypt, was founded by an Italian printer called Carlo Me...

Prior to the 1874 Berne Universal Postal Union Congress most stamp issuing authorities only sent out information rega...

The Alitalia AVRO 691 Lancaster 3 plane (registration I-AHBX) was on route from Buenos Aires to Rome when it was forc...

It’s freezing, the office is often open by 7.30 and nicely warm when most of us arrive but not today so everything ha...

As a teenager in the early 1980s I worked in a stamp shop. One fateful day a gentleman arrived with a collection of G...

My fellow philatelists, I have a story to tell about how I single- handedly got a bunch of young people to play aroun...

Here in the UK the state of our road network has probably overtaken the weather as our favoured gripe. It’s certainly...

The Mount Currie Express One Penny stamp, issued in 1874 by the Ballance and Goodliffe store is one of South Africa's...

These questions were part of a quiz we ran in 2017 but we've left them on our site as you might enjoy answering or re...

The Mysterious Indian Classic!I am getting old enough, and I’ve spent long enough in philately, to find myself remini...

This morning we held a staff meeting, part of which involved the reviewing of our website homepage and, stamp guys be...

Occasionally I talk to groups of non- collectors about our hobby and my business. It does pay to keep the audience in...

We are currently offering an example of one of the British Empire's strangest stamps, a typewritten Long Island 1916 ...