Stamp Magazine - September 2022

In this issue

In our September issue, we tell the story of the Republic of China’s very collectable 1932 Martyrs of the Revolution definitive series, asking what inspired it, who it portrayed and how it evolved in peacetime and wartime. We also investigate British postal history of the immediate pre-stamp era, 1790-1840, making a case study of Glasgow, a rapidly growing city with a thriving local Penny Post. Our monthly series on Britain’s commemoratives in the early years of Queen Elizabeth II studies the 1960 set marking the Tercentenary of the General Letter Office, with its two wildly contrasting designs. Commonwealth Classics recalls the 1938 pictorial issue of Cyprus, focusing on its splendid portrait of King George VI, while Victoriana features a letter addressed to someone who had died, and its rather unusual postal markings. Our news pages have full details of Royal Mail’s revised country definitives and Commonwealth Games special issue, as well as intriguing new stamps from around the world, and some hugely expensive highlights from the auction rooms.