In the first of a new series, Maurice Buxton recounts the changes to the postal service with decimalisation in 1971. These days, stamp collectors are probably the group most likely to be familiar with the old British currency of ‘pounds,...
For the 250th anniversary of American independence, Michael Burzan revisits how European postal administrations marked the US bicentenary in 1976. The year 1976 marked the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence....
Richard West outlines some of the methods used by Royal Mail in recent years to combat the forgery of its stamps. Fear of forgery and reuse of stamps has featured strongly with British stamps since the Penny Black (Figure 1). The first stamps...
Located at the southernmost tip of South America, Tierra del Fuego is the subject of Chris West’s ‘Stamp Story’ this month. When 16th-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan, in search of the spice islands, was trying to find a way through South...