Stamp News

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1999 Pan American Games, Winnipeg

The Joy of Finding a Missing Stamp, Part III

I finally found the Dominican Republic 5 peso baseball stamp to complete my 1999 Pan American Games collection!

2 December 2024

1840 First Stamps

Finally—a Penny Black

The world’s first postage stamp is in my collection at last, the famous 1840 Penny Black! Now all I need is an 1840 Tuppenny Blue!

28 October 2024

1979 South Pacific Games

Finding an Imperforate Variety

Find and adding the imperforate variety of a New Caledonia stamp to my existing 1979 South Pacific Games collection!

12 October 2024

Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee

Remounting and Expanding Old Collections

Some of my older collections remounted on new layouts, or expanding to make a more complete collection.

9 September 2024

1987 South Pacific Games, Nouméa

Sporting Events VI

Stamps for the 1974 Central American & Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, and the 1983 and 1987 South Pacific Games in Apia and Nouméa

1979 South Pacific Games, Suva

Sporting Events V

Stamps commemorating the 1975 and 1979 South Pacific Games in Guam and Suva respectively, and the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi

Falkland Islands and Dependencies

1938–1949 Falkland Islands & Dependencies

Stamps issued for the Falkland Islands from 1938–1949 and overprinted for the Falkland Island Dependencies in 1944

Dominica

Dominica, Ghana, and the Gambia

Some of my older stamp collections featuring stamps from Dominica, Ghana, and the Gambia, scanned for posterity

Europa 1989

Europa 1989

I went back to my Europa collection and made some pages for the 1989 issues, with the theme of children’s games

1972 Lisbon-Rio 50th

Getting the Last Stamp

The joy of acquiring a rare stamp that finishes a collection! This time a 1972 Portuguese 3.80 escudo stamp with 13½ perforation.