The ‘Solferino’ Cover

The ‘Solferino’ Cover

What’s great about history is that events are named after something logical. For example, the 1859 Battle of Solferino takes its name from where the conflict actually took place – Solferino in Italy. It was one of the largest battles since the 1813 Battle of...
The Top Ten Philatelic World Rarities

The Top Ten Philatelic World Rarities

A question that repeatedly gets asked is, “what are the ten world’s most expensive stamps?” or to put it another way, “what are the world’s top ten rarities?”. It’s an interesting question which isn’t as straightforward to answer as you might think. Whilst it is...
The Mystery of a Stamp and its Collector

The Mystery of a Stamp and its Collector

In the first of our Museum of Philately ‘behind the scenes’ we take a closer look at a story not often talked about when discussing the world’s most expensive stamp and one of the elite Philatelists who held the world record breaking postal adhesive in his collection....