We've produced a postcard featuring a real photo of RMS Titanic in advance of the centenary of her loss. Our thinking is collectors may want suitable items in advance in order to collect special postmarks dated on the anniversary in April 2012.
Sotheby's say this exceptionally rare London Penny Post handstamp dating from 1680/81 represents a crucial step in the development of Great Britain’s postal history.
This year’s Royal Mail Christmas stamps were issued yesterday, 8th November, and feature scenes inspired by the Nativity story. Mary and Baby Jesus are featured on the 1st Class stamp with Joseph being visited by the Angel on the 2nd Class stamp.
Royal Mail hass announced the last posting dates for Christmas deliveries in 2011.
A petition by hundreds of local residents was one of the major factors that helped to secure approval for a new Post office in the Lincolnshire village of Wellingore.
How many people walk past this plaque every day without noticing it or reflecting on its significance? The plaque commemorates the first ever postmark - the Bishop Mark - being struck in the General Letter Office in 1661.
The Stoneham Stamp Catalogue is now in its 15th edition and I'm on the look out for any GB collectors in possession of the latest edition who can write a well written and objective review for us.
The top UK stamp dealers and catalogue publishers, Stanley Gibbons, are offering people the chance to win a pre-built rare stamp investment portfolio worth £5,000.
Courtesy of Royal Mail, we have five Presentation Packs for the recent A-Z of Britain stamp issue to give away in the first of our regular competitions to win free British stamps and covers.
The 1984 GB Frama labels were an early experiment by Royal Mail to find a way of dispensing valid postage labels rather than vending fixed price postage stamps or stamp booklets from machines. The aim was, not least to shorten queues in Post Offices, to have machines that could sell postage labels at the exact value required for an item of mail
Postal reformer Sir Rowland Hill KCB (1795 - 1879) once resided in Birmingham between 1802 and 1803. Here's a photo of his blue plaque.
Royal Mail will again be selling the rememberance poppy stamps - produced in a se-tenant strip of three - from Post Offices from 31st October this year.
Spink hold a regular programme of valuation events around the UK and Worldwide and frequntly attend major fairs and exhibitions. Their programme of valuation days in the UK has been announced via their website.
For only four days - during Autumn Stampex - the Royal Mail marked the centenary of Arnold Machin's birth with a special commemorative issue of Post and Go stamps. Given just a week's notice of the issue and the very short production life, these Post & Go Stamps are likely to become the target of investors in addition to collectors.
A major European-level philatelic exhibition is to be hosted in London during 2015. This will give the United Kingdom its first ever international exhibition between the world events which take place each decade. The exhibition is expected to feature around 1,200 frames in the competitive section.
Reports have begun circulating that a huge increase is anticipated in the price of postage stamps as the Royal Mail continues to tackle ongoing losses reported to be running at around £2 Million per week
