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Sewing machine roulette (also known as “Perce en points” or pin roulette) is one of the oldest and widely spread methods to separate stamps. As the name suggests, roulette is created with sewing (or similar) machine. In this roulette, small holes are pricked trough the paper one at a time,and no paper is  Read More →

According to the National Postal Museum’s Arago website, “…during the Civil War, the Union blockade proved critical in restricting goods from entering and leaving the Confederacy. Southerners faced increasing shortages of supplies, including paper and envelopes. Writers began to use whatever was handy as letter writing paper... 

Pillar boxes at the British Postal Museum Store Throughout the year we open up our Museum Store to visitors. The Store is a working space, where our curators look after our collection of large objects – everything from pillar boxes and cycles, to mail vans and sorting equipment. There are also some interesting surprises, like the desk of Sir... 

As January is promoted as the National Hobby Month in some parts of the world, I think this is a great time to tell and share something about my other hobbies. As You can guess, many of these are (or relate heavily) to collecting. For starters, I do collect coins and other money. I would  Read More →

I’m a non-smoker, so one of my greatest annoyances is ending up with otherwise good stuff that has cigarette smell all over. So how do I get rid off the smell? My personal approach is to air the stamps outdoors (in carage, balcony or similar) from few days up to few weeks during the very  Read More →

This fabulous cover has been sitting on my table for few weeks. It features my very first postally used complete US miniature sheet (as well as few more stamps from the TV memories stamp series). Personally I think it’s more than fabulous to be able to mix very old and brand new stamp issues to create  Read More →

Just to show a case of good luck in contrast to last post. This is something I found while sorting stamps I had soaked from kiloware… An Argentinian 10 peso definitive postage stamp issued in 1995. It looks like any modern day topical stamp, but if catalogs are to believe, this one is worth 30€  Read More →

According to the National Postal Museum’s Arago website, “…during the Civil War, the Union blockade proved critical in restricting goods from entering and leaving the Confederacy. Southerners faced increasing shortages of supplies, including paper and envelopes. Writers began to use whatever was handy as letter writing paper... 

The 1988 Christmas postage stamps introduced few more Christmas decorations. These stamps also mark an end of an era – from here on single-design Christmas stamps were no longer issued by Finnish Post. I’m not quite sure about the stamps design, but I believe it is some kind of window decoration. They are quite common as  Read More →

“Once considered the ‘king of hobbies’, fit for those who seek knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, stamp collection is no longer a thing of attraction for the tech-savvy generation of this fast-paced internet age,” writes reporter Ashis Senapati in the Times of India . In his article, Philately Stamped Out in Internet Age,... 

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