Vincent Green, chairman of Sandafayre, discusses how he learnt to look at stamps General

How I Learned to Look at Stamps 19

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

As a child I would spend several weeks during the Summer holidays in Bournemouth, a large and reasonably well- heeled...

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Postage stamp from Switzerland being placed in folder General

Stamp Tricks and Tips: Chalk-Surfaced Papers 20

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

A few weeks ago an experienced philatelist admitted to problems he was having in identifying the chalky paper version...

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Collection of rare and interesting stamps General

Why Do Stamp Collectors Like Errors? 21

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

Sometimes discovering philatelic errors is easy, particularly when examples have been identified and are accurately d...

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Postage stamp from Switzerland being placed in folder General

Fake News and Stamp Design Sexism 22

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

Behind my desk, wedged between our specialized reference collection of Bermuda large key plate stamps and an unsteady...

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A member of the Sandafayre team analysing a rare and unique stamp General

Rare and Unique Errors - Should You Feel Lucky? 23

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

We are proudly displaying, on the front cover of our latest Sandafayre catalogue, three rather splendid and very diff...

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Vincent Green, chairman of Sandafayre, discusses philately on his honeymoon General

Philately on my Honeymoon! 24

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

I got married three weeks ago! Just one of several unusual experiences from a recent trip to America – and no, Elvis ...

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Felix Vaitkus and the Lituanica II Flight stamp General

Felix Vaitkus and the Lituanica II Flight 25

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

The 1920s and early 1930s saw the expansion of Pioneering Flights extend to non stop distance records and internation...

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Posta Europea General

Posta Europea 26

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

The Posta Europea, a privately owned postal service in Lower Egypt, was founded by an Italian printer called Carlo Me...

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UPU 'Specimen' Stamp General

UPU 'Specimen' Stamps - A Fascinating Addition to Your Collection 27

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

Prior to the 1874 Berne Universal Postal Union Congress most stamp issuing authorities only sent out information rega...

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1949 Dakar Air Crash Cover General, Airmail Stamps, France, Colonies & Dependencies, Senegal

1949 Dakar Air Crash Cover 28

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

The Alitalia AVRO 691 Lancaster 3 plane (registration I-AHBX) was on route from Buenos Aires to Rome when it was forc...

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Vincent Green, chairman of Sandafayre, gives an insight into the stamp room General

Just Another Day (and late night?) in the Stamp Room 29

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

It’s freezing, the office is often open by 7.30 and nicely warm when most of us arrive but not today so everything ha...

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A member of the Sandafayre team analysing a stamp collection and organising folders General

Let's Discuss Stamp Hinges 30

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

As a teenager in the early 1980s I worked in a stamp shop. One fateful day a gentleman arrived with a collection of G...

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A collection of rare and unique stamps General

Take Advantage of Christmas and Get Those Kids Collecting Stamps! 31

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

My fellow philatelists, I have a story to tell about how I single- handedly got a bunch of young people to play aroun...

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Mail coach General

Remember Ye Olde Post Roads! 32

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

Here in the UK the state of our road network has probably overtaken the weather as our favoured gripe. It’s certainly...

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The Mount Currie Express Stamp General

The Mount Currie Express Stamps 33

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

The Mount Currie Express One Penny stamp, issued in 1874 by the Ballance and Goodliffe store is one of South Africa's...

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Penny Black stamp General

Penny Black Quiz 34

12/10/2021 Posted By Sandafayre

These questions were part of a quiz we ran in 2017 but we've left them on our site as you might enjoy answering or re...

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A rare and unique stamp called The Scinde Dawk General, India, First Issues & Classics

The Scinde Dawk 35

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

The Mysterious Indian Classic!I am getting old enough, and I’ve spent long enough in philately, to find myself remini...

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General

A 'Stampy' Staff Meeting 36

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

This morning we held a staff meeting, part of which involved the reviewing of our website homepage and, stamp guys be...

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General

A Tough Audience 37

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

Occasionally I talk to groups of non- collectors about our hobby and my business. It does pay to keep the audience in...

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General, Turkey, British Levant

The British Empire's Most Unusual Stamps? 38

12/10/2021 Posted By Vincent Green

We are currently offering an example of one of the British Empire's strangest stamps, a typewritten Long Island 1916 ...

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