Stamp Magazine - July 2021
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.
Stamp Magazine Description:
Publisher: MyTime Media Ltd.
Category: Hobbies & Craft
Language: English
Frequency: Monthly
"As Britain's longest-running independent philatelic magazine, Stamp Magazine offers a wide range of news, features and opinion to interest, entertain and inform you, whatever you collect.
Our news pages are lively and well-informed, and the GB Collector section gives you the inside line on all upcoming British issues. Our features are the best-written and best illustrated in the world of philately, and our regular columnists pull no punches. Stamp Magazine publishes 12 great issues a year."
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