Stamp News

1987 Pan American Games Paraguay

The Joy of Acquiring a Missing Stamp, Part I

I finally acquired the missing Paraguay Mary Lou Retton overprint for my 1987 Pan American Games collection.
28 January 2024
King Charles III £5 Definitive Stamp

New King Charles III Definitives

I just added the latest King Charles III definitive stamps, the low and high values sets, to the collection with the first set of definitives
28 January 2024
SMA Art Talk Europa Stamps

SMA Art Talk #173: Europa Stamps, Part 1

I had the honor to present part of my Europa stamp collection as Art Talk #173 during SMA’s weekly Town Hall on 16 November 2023
17 November 2023
TAP Air Portugal

TAP Air Portugal Anniversaries

Starting with a small issue of Portuguese colony stamps on the Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP) airline, and expanding it!
9 September 2023
400th Anniversary of São Paulo

Quadricentennial of the Founding of São Paulo

Commemorating the quadricentennial (400th anniversary) of the founding of São Paulo with stamps from Brazil, Portugal and the colonies.
4 September 2023
Roger Dean

SMA Art Talk #161: Roger Dean

Stamps by British artist Roger Dean, subject of the popular Art Talk, part of the weekly Town Hall produced by SMA on August 24, 2023
4 September 2023
1950 Holy Year

1948-1951 Religious Events

Completed! The 1948 Fátima and 1951 End of Holy Year collections: Portuguese colonial stamps and more!
27 August 2023
1961 6th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference

1961–2017 Commonwealth Parliamentary Conferences

Stamps commemorating the British Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Commonwealth Parliamentary Conferences, held annually from 1961.
15 August 2023
1952 Tropical Medicine

1st National Congress for Tropical Medicine, Lisbon

Stamps issued to commemorate the 1st National Congress of Tropical Medicine in April 1952 in Lisbon, Portugal.
16 July 2023
1963 African Postal Union

1963 African Postal Union

Stamps issued to commemorate the second anniversary of the African and Malagasy Postal and Telecommunications Union
4 July 2023