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Happy Darwin Day!

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Happy Darwin Day!

Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around February 12, the birthday anniversary of [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog!

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Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog! To read more about the featured stamps read The Twelve Days of [...]

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Crazy GB stamp mixture on one envelope!

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Crazy mix

This crazy envelope surely has to win some kind of prize for its eccentric mix of British commemorative and definitive [...]

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Good King Wenceslas, the Page and the Peasant

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Merry Christmas from Penny Black 1840! I have just made this little video of the 1973 British commemorative stamps for [...]

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

I’ve always loved these 1977 Christmas stamps because they were one of the first sets I collected as a child, [...]

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The Royal Silver Wedding Anniversary 1948

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The Royal Silver Wedding Anniversary 1948

With Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary this week I thought this stamp might make [...]

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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

I was lucky enough to have got tickets for the première showing of Elizabeth: The Golden Age starring Cate Blanchett [...]

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1981 FDC Guernsey Diana and Charles Stamp

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Charles and Diana Guernsey FDC

Whilst news broadcasts the world over follow the Diana Inquest I thought I’d post this First Day of Issue Postcard [...]

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George VI stamp find in mixed bag!

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George VI £1 brown

One of the fun sides to buying the occasional mixed bag of stamps is that you’ll inevitably find the odd [...]

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1979 GB commemoratives

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1979 GB Commemoratives

Here’s an interesting curiosity…A very nice strip of three London Post c.1839 13p GB commemorative stamps on an envelope above [...]

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