The Stamp Collectors Corner

Continuing from Wednesday…
There was some debate in England as to whether the double-decker bus should be considered an “icon” or not.  I think that most people will agree, thanks to travel, television, pictures, and movies, that the double-decker bus definitely is because those big beautiful red buses are associated mostly with England.
The sad news is [...]

Since its’ first appearance in the 1950’s, the Routemaster double-decker bus has been a huge hit with Londoners and tourists alike.  So popular in its design, double-deckers can also be found in other countries as well.  Many older Routemasters have resurfaced in countries like Canada, Sri Lanka and the US.  In other places, such as [...]

The holidays are here and with such, so are the Christmas inspired postage stamps.  Like in the United States, many countries around the world issue Christmas themed postage stamps each year.  It is widely believed that Canada issued the first Christmas postage stamps in 1898, although they were not terribly festive looking.  Those 2 cent [...]

Some mythical creatures are believed to originate from real creatures that were often described from traveler’s tales.  For good storytelling purposes, mythical creatures often took on the form of two actual creatures combined into one making a new hybrid creature.  Others were just ones that were made up and downplayed for good storytelling purposes.  Over [...]

The Punch and Judy puppet show can be traced back as far as the 16th century.  Originally of Italian roots, the marionette show made their debut in London, England in 1662.  It did not take long for the show, which was originally geared towards adult audiences, to become very popular among the crowds.  As word [...]

Great Britain is often known for making seemingly normal everyday items into fantastic looking postage stamps.  In August of 2009, they released a miniature sheet of four stamps that feature England’s iconic wall mounted red mail post boxes.  Along with the set is a fully illustrated presentation pack that contains information about the past 200 [...]

The United States Postal Service joined forces with Great Britain in a joint issue with a couple of adorable postage stamps.  Issued on January 10, 2006, each set in the US and England contained eight stamps, but only two of the stamps in each set were issued in both sets.  The stamp sets featured popular [...]

Before the days of the internet, postage stamp collectors had a far more difficult time finding stamps from different countries.  They were likely limited to trading with other local collectors, waiting for a special letter to arrive in the mail, or if they were lucky, they knew of a good Stamp Dealer.
Stamp Dealers are a [...]

2009 marks the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.  It also marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, which was written by Charles Darwin in 1859.  Great Britain paid tribute this year to Charles Darwin and his scientific works by issuing [...]

April 21, 2006 marked Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 80th actual birthday.  Her official birthday is June 17th.  There were many celebrations throughout the entire Royal Empire.  Many countries within the Empire, including, Britain, The Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Jersey to name a few; issued postages stamps to help commemorate the special Royal [...]