Stamp Magazine - July 2021
Get Stamp Magazine along with 8,000+ other magazines & newspapers
Try FREE for 7 days
Latest and past issues of 8,000+ magazines & newspapers
Digital Access. Cancel Anytime.1 Year$99.99 $49.99 Save 50%
Latest and past issues of 8,000+ magazines & newspapersDigital Access. Cancel Anytime.Get Stamp Magazine
1 Year$71.88 $37.99
12 issues starting from February 2022 Digital Access. Cancel Anytime.
Flash Sale! Save 47% on annual subscriptions. Valid till April 1, 2023
Buy this issue $5.99
July 2021 issue Digital Access. - Magazine Details
- In this issue
Magazine Description
In this issue
Our July issue looks back 50 years, to Britain’s first commemorative stamp programme of the decimal era. It didn’t all go according to plan. We also present a special feature encouraging everyone to look beyond the rates and routes of postal history and consider the senders and recipients. Their stories are easier to research than ever before, as our examples demonstrate. Elsewhere in the magazine there’s a study of Sweden’s unusual Landstorm issues of World War I, semi-postals with surcharges to raise money for military uniforms. Commonwealth Classics remembers a beautiful pictorial issue of the British Solomon Islands, while Great Engravers celebrates the work of Pierre Albuisson, one of the great French stamp artists. Black Magic explains why some Penny Black covers feature horizontal strips of the stamp, but few have rectangular blocks. Our news pages have details of Royal Mail’s special issues honouring Prince Philip, and celebrating the music of Paul McCartney, and reveal the international controversy which could see the stamps of a British overseas territory declared invalid.
Cancel Anytime [ No Commitments ]
Digital Only
Ship Of State
Recess-printed, lithographed, typographed and overprinted, the attractive Lakatoi issues of British New Guinea and Papua are a complex series with myriad varieties
The Finest Cuts For This Year's Christmas Fare
Royal Mail’s Christmas stamps, released on November 5, take a religious approach this year, featuring classy biblical scenes created by paper-cut artists Hari & Deepti.
Roaring Success?
The first stamp issue for Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika in 1935 might have united three postal administrations, but its design and printing were far from uniform
Man Of Peace
Karl bickel not only transformed and rejuvenated Swiss stamp design in the mid-20th century but also built a monument to peace in his spare time
‘Oh Help! Oh No! It's A Gruffalo!'
A Royal Mail stamp issue on October 10 marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Gruffalo, the popular children’s picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Day Of Reckoning
However painstakingly compiled, your collection is destined to be broken up and recycled. It’s not a question of if, but when, and how?
Beasts Of Burden
Animals harnessed for postal purposes have come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the choices and some of the scenarios might surprise you
King And Kaiser
Johann Kaiser engraved only three stamp designs, but they were the first issues of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, so his place in philatelic history is secure
Whisper Of Wilberforce
A centenary with particular resonance for Sierra Leone inspired one of the finest colonial issues of the 1930s, even if the key protagonist was barely acknowledged
Try, Try Again
With the rugby World Cup currently underway in Japan, what better time to investigate the growing potential for a rugby union thematic collection?