by Devlan Kruck | Sep 9, 2021 | News
The well informed collector among us will be aware that Stampex International will be taking place between Wednesday 29th September and Saturday 2nd October 2021, and after an absence of over 18 months this will be a fully interactive physical show, and not the...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 26, 2021 | News
The Museum of Philately teamed up with Stamp Collector Magazine and the allaboutstamps.co.uk website to deliver the first in a new five part webinar series, called ‘Adventures in Philately’, which explores and explains the world of stamps and celebrates stamp...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 12, 2021 | Collection
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” is a famous music hall song, often sung by soldiers during the wars of the early part of the twentieth century. But it’s an even longer way from Ballymackey in Tipperary to Muscat. You might wonder why we mention this...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 7, 2021 | Rarities
In Britain around the year 1876, a £5 Orange stamp was equivalent to about £1000 in today’s money. It makes you think what on earth could anyone send that would cost that amount of cash? But that’s not the half of it, because one of the key inspirations and ultimately...
by Devlan Kruck | Jul 7, 2021 | News
The word ‘Bisect’ in philately refers to a stamp which is cut into two ‘equal’ halves, both of which are used for postage and crucially each half of the bisect has a postage value of half the original face value of the stamp. Often bisect stamps are used when there is...
