From the news that a famous shoe designer to the stars is selling the world famous British Guiana 1c Magenta, and left his owner mark on the back, as well as selling his unique Inverted Jenny block, to a feature about the magic of Virtual Stampex, to the world famous...
To celebrate the 181st birthday of the world’s first postage stamp we take a closer look at what the Museum of Philately has to show on this iconic adhesive.
If you said ‘“Suez Canal” to anyone in the last month they’d probably think of the maritime traffic jam caused by the Evergreen tanker
They say that if you want to discover real beauty you have to look beyond the appearance and delve beneath the surface. Well, this multi-million US$ stamp certainly provides a lesson in not judging a stamp by its looks…….find out what makes it so very beautiful and...
A Removed Imprimatur in short is a missing stamp from the Imprimatur sheet. The longer explanation is whenever a printing plate of stamps was laid down, ready to be used, an impression of the entire plate on the same paper, and in the appropriate colour to be used for...
What a Museum does when the appearance of the world’s most expensive stamp changes.
The Museum of Philately participated in the second Virtual Stampex March 25th to 27th 2021 with an interactive philatelic extravaganza which despite it all being over now, it isn’t closed to visitors, it is ‘On Demand’ until the 28th April.
In philately a Primitive is a stamp of a basic and unsophisticated design and printing. Some classic stamps which are so called are the 1847 Mauritius Post Office Issue, 1858 The Bull’s Head of Romania, and the 1851 Cottonreels of British Guiana, as well as the 1843...
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.
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