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For information about Great Britain's stamps and
postal information select Royal Mail, Post Office
Archive and National Postal Museum.
Why not explore Bath Postal Museum? |
Look at GB Stamps for Great
Britain Philately, including ,
Machin Mania.
This is a Canadian collector's
view of Machins.
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See the ABPS, and
NPS
websites supporting philately in the United Kingdom, and the
The Royal Philatelic
Society site. |
Check with the UK's Philatelic
Traders' Society for a list of dealers and their
stock. |
For infomation about what's on in the UK try The Stampshows
Website as well as the HPF Local Events page. |
This portal set up by The Royal Philatelic Society of London, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington and the American Philatelic Research Library provides
a central gateway to a number of sites for philatelic research.
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Online British postal resources 1798-1920 are available on the
GBPS website
which also has a useful download section. |
British Forces Philatelic Service supporting UK forces through philately.
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For more GB look at
Collect GB Stamps.
Also see the Perfin Society. |
Look at GB FDC Collectors
and
GB Smilers Sheets.
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For GB Postal History and stamps from earliest times to date, also fine stock of philatelic literature, check out
Bill Barrell.
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Pierron's Online Catalogue
for Modern Great Britain and Commonwealth Errors.
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Just starting out, or returning to the hobby? Try these links:
Introduction to Stamp Collecting,
Glossary of Stamp Terms,
A Guide to Caring for Your Stamp Collection.
The links have a US bias, but often a different viewpoint helps.
Check these out too:
Stamp Domain for many useful links.
All About Philately
An introduction to stamps and stamp collecting for the new collector.
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Various Magazines: Gibbons Stamp Monthly,
Stamp Magazine
and
The Postal Gazette.
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Various stamp forums:
STAMPBOARDS.com,
mystampworld.net,
The Virtual Stamp Club
and
Stamp Exchange
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Support our local dealers
and those supporting Hampex.
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Look at the EXPONET
Virtual International Philatelic Exhibition to see some top class philatelic exhibits from around the world.
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Just getting started? Look at The Ultimate Guide to Stamp Collecting
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For all sorts of World-Wide philatelic
information look
at the Philatelic Collections in the British
Library. |
Go to Lee's Illustrated
Stamp Listopedia for a vast array of links to valuable
and interesting resources. |
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Thematic collecting (also known as
Topicals) is a great way to get into stamp
collecting.
Start with the British Thematic Association.
Check out the American Topical Association.
You should look into Stamp Printing across the world and
Stamps Featuring Ships.
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Explore Aerophilately through
The British Air Mail Society, the
American Air Mail Society (AAMS) and
Aerophil.
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The The Wreck & Crash Mail Society site contains very useful resources about air, ship and rail wrecks and interrupted mail,
as does Brian Peace's website.
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Look at The TPO &
Seapost Society which is all about the postal
history of handling mail at sea and on the world's
railways. Its site has a links page relevant to this large collecting area as well as many articles about Seaposts and
TPOs in many countries by way of introduction to these topics. |
The following excellent site by the WORLDWIDE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN PHILATELY includes aspects of railway mail, as does
the PHILATELY OF LITHUANIA site.
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Explore Postal History via UK's Postal History Society. |
The British Postmark Society
covers a wide variety of topics from the perspective of British Postal Markings.
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For military postal history see the
Military Postal History Society, and the
Forces Postal History Society. |
For Postal Stationery look at The UK's Postal
Stationery Society site. |
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For information about United States stamps look
at Linn's Stamp Weekly
and the Scott
Catalogue |
This American
Philatelic Society site contains links to many US
societies as well as that of the American
Stamp Club of Great Britain, and the Virtual Stamp Club.
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For your American Dealer in Britain see Stephen Taylor. |
The U.S. Philatelic
Classics Society is relevant to stamp collectors and
postal historians, and has a link to the Ships List. |
The US Postal Service is at US Stamps Online and also
here: US Postal Service.
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Have you wondered about those strange codes on covers
from the USA ? To decode USPS Postnet bar codes and more see
the Internet
Online POSTNET Barcode Decoder by Douglas Quine. |
For information about plate numbering on coiled stamps
see the Plate Number Coil
Collectors Club |
For information about Auxiliary Markings visit the
Auxiliary Marking
Club pages for US and other markings. |
View The Siegel
Encyclopedia(c) with useful introductions to
all major U.S. stamp issues, census information and
illustrations for 24 of the rarest U.S. stamps. |
Go to Frajola's Board For Philatelists and see some outstanding postal history exhibits as well as in depth analyses.
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The United States
Stamp Society has lots of good information including
research papers and reprints of articles.
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Visit the
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
and view their online exhibits.
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Also look at Jim's United States Stamp Album and
Collectors Weekly.
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For Canadian interest look at the The British North America
Philatelic Society and their online philatelic journal archive, or our own
Canadian
Philatelic Society of Great Britain. The
Archive of Canada contains the
Canadian Postal Archive.
Finally, check out the
Canada Philatelic Specialists site.
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Learn all about Meter Franking in the UK (UK Meter Franking)
and the USA and Canada (Meter Stamp Society) |
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Here is the New Zealand Society of Great Britain site.
For Australia refer to The British Society of Australian Philately (BSAP) site and the
Australia Resource Page.
See also, Tasmanian Philatelic Society.
Visit PAPERSPAST for
digitized New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945.
Also, TROVE for Australian newspapers, books,
journals, photographs, letters, and more digitized by the National Library of Australia.
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For India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and States see
the India Study
Circle for Philately. |
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If Islands are your thing, then check out The Channel Islands Specialists' Society,
followed by the Ascension Island Post
Office, and the Island of Saint
Helena. |
Check out the British Caribbean Philatelic Study
Group and British West
Indies Study Circle |
In the Pacific there is the Kiribati and Tuvalu Philatelic Society
and the Pacific Islands Study Circle.
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Look at the Stamp Albums Web for Album Pages. |
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For Philatelic Literature and accessories see PRINZ/Vera Trinder, or
H H sales,
Bradford.
Investigate the Philatelic Bibliopole of Leonard H. Hartmann
and see Philatelic Literature News from James Bendon.
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Explore James E.
Lee's U.S. Stamps, Covers, Essays, Proofs, Postal History
and Fancy Cancels as well as his Literature
resources. |
Try Phil
Bansner's Web Site & Online Ordering System with a
wants list registration and notification
service. |
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Robert A Siegel’s annual RARITIES OF THE WORLD™ sales have brought to auction the largest number of philatelic rarities ever handled by one firm.
Thousands of items across a wide range of categories, along with descriptions and prices realized from every Rarities sale, may now be accessed
from the Siegel website free of charge. It is an unparalleled resource for all philatelists.
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Worldwide Public Philatelic
Auctions by Charles E. Cwiakala - auction agent |
Stamp Auction
Network access to a number of major auctions via a
single site |
Jim Forte's Worldwide Postal History |
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Universal Postal Union
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