oh dear!

I'm a stamp dealer. I make my living selling stamps. I assume other dealers do the same!

But take a look at this. It's a stamp auction catalogue but the firm sending it has so little respect both for their business and mine that they can't even be bothered to use stamps! Just a preprinted frank on the envelope. Okay, they may save a few pence, but I would have stamped this with an array of nice commemoratives or scarcer booklet stamps etc that would have been nicely postmarked and would have sold for more than the face value.

Consequently I won't even be opening this package - it'll be going straight in the bin.

This is not the way to do business when times are good let alone when they are bad!

plating penny blacks - the cheap way!!

In 1990 the Isle of Man issued a commemorative set to mark the 150th anniversary of the Penny Black.

The lowest value was just 1p, and came in 25 types, with the bottom corner letters ranging from A-A to E-E.

I have managed to get hold of two complete sets of these plates which are just going on the website. These are very hard to put together so they are £3.50 each set of 25, vastly cheaper than trying to complete a pane of original Penny Blacks!

jersey kiloware

Just added to the site are just 2 half kilo lots of Jersey kiloware. Straight from theuisland and very modern, this contains a good range of very recent material plus a few older bits and pieces. Completely unpicked as usual.

crinkle cut!

Just listed is this special mix imported directly from a major charity on the Isle of Man. Totally unpicked it contains an excellent range of mainly modern Manx stamps plus around 5% of foreign (including GB) which are mainly less common items, including from some fellow autonomous islands.

fresh kiloware

Just listed lots of new kiloware - Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Malaysia and GB Wildings. These always sell really quickly!!

jersey

I'm currently listing Jersey and hopefully will have listed all my Channel Islands and Isle of Man stock by the end of this month!

300 guernsey

Just listed is this superb packet of 300 different Guernsey, not an easy packet to put together!

special packet - bargain!

Just listed is this special GB packet provided by a collector - 80+ GB large with about 10-15 high values, a really good range for just 75p!

hard to find

Modern GB mini sheets (as well as commemorative issues) are VERY hard to find. I get a few that I buy back from customers that have received parcels from me. As you can see that get genuine CDS postmarks from Pensford post office. I only ever have a few if any of these and they sell really fast. I will be listing some over the next few days.

BIOT

I'm currently loading some nioce modern unmounted mint material from this Sterling territory,

railway letter stamps

I've just acquired a small lot of railway letter stamps - this is probably the pick of the bunch! This is from the Cavan and Leitrim Railway which operated until 1959 and included the last steam tramway service in the UK. Always printed in small numbers this is a very rare unmounted mint block of 6. Other lines in this lot included the Southwold Railway, Castlederg and Victoria Bridge, Garstang and Knott End, Shropshire and Montgomeryshire and West Clare Railway.



half kilo kiloware lots

I'm trying to expand my kiloware stock and range, and I've just put Austria, Malta, Finland and Hong Kong half kilo lots on to the website.

1000 canada

Just listed is this excellent large Canada packet - 1000 different for just £30.

a real bargain

Just listed is this excellent packet of 150 different Queen Victoria stamps. Considering that the youngest of these is over 100 years old the price of £33 is just over 20p a stamp, a real bargain as much of this material, even 'common' stuff, is increasingly hard to find.

germany year sets

I've just taken delivery of some excellent Germany Year Sets. The stamps are all selected items - the mint are all fresh unmounted. These are priced VERY competitively, often around 20% of catalogue value. Almost all post war years are available, as are year sets for East Germany, Berlin, Austria, Liechtenstein and Russia. This is a cheap and easy way to further your collection.

unusual

 Just loaded is this unusual packet which contains 20 German Occupation of Belgium stamps. Our packet stock is growing steadily with a really impressive range of countries and themes. Buying the largest packet you can of a country or theme is a very good way to get started!

rare chance ...

... to buy a whole 'country' in one go! These are the issues for Saarland issued after World War Two, complete and mint and on the website today!

unusual packets

I've had a big delivery of packets arrive today. Included are some very unusual 'countries', including Marienwerder shown above. This is an easy and cheap way of getting hold of some very unusual material!

modern commems

Many modern commemorative issues are going to be in very short supply in the future! The reason is quite simple - the lag between postal authorities' perception of collector demand and the actual demand that is being increased daily by the Internet and the growth of collecting in developing countries, particularly India and China. Many modern commemoratives are printed in small quantities.

I've noticed a big pick up in orders for commemorative mint sets (mainly) recently and would always recommend picking them up when you can as restocking is often difficult if not impossible!

Solomon Islands

Just in is a lovely lot of unmounted mint Solomon Islands issues from 1996-2009. Many modern issues are very hard to find once the new issue period is over, so I'd always recommend grabbing them when they become available!

superb used

I've always had a preference for very fine used over mint, but that's just me! This is a lovely set just loaded to the website, which now has over 10,000 separate stamp/set listings. As always priced at just half catalogue ie £52.50.