'The Philatelic Exporter' is the only independent magazine in the world for the international postage stamp trade, having been published every month since it first appeared in May 1945.
September 2008
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter
Military occupies Autumn Stampex
Autumn Stampex, organised by the Philatelic Traders' Society, will be held at the Business Design Centre, Islington, (close by Angel Tube Station) from September 17 to 20 ... www.philatelic-traders-society.co.uk
SG's sales and profits increase
Stanley Gibbons's interim results for the six months to June 30 2008 show all-round growth. Highlights of the report are: adjusted profit before tax, excluding exceptional operating costs, of £1.9m, up 11%. Profit before tax up 6% to £1.81m (2007: £1.7m); ...
Apex sold to coin company
On August 19 2008, Noble Investments Plc, 11 Adelphi Terrace, London WC2A 6BJ, acquired 100% of the shares in Apex Philatelics Ltd ...
Pioneering sisters’ stamp on history
Royal Mail is to honour the courage and determination of six women whose revolutionary work challenged convention - and changed history. Women of Distinction, to be issued on October 14, highlights the work of women who defied discrimination to change the lives of other women; achieving both power and influence in the traditionally male areas of politics, medicine, and social reform ...
14 Golds for Australia
Australia Post produced 14 Gold Medallist stamps during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games which ended on August 24 ...
PTS warns of journalistic scam
The Philatelic Traders' Society has issued an alert about a scam which is currently being perpetrated against coin dealers in the UK. The scam has been so successful it is feared that the stamp trade may be the next target ...
Heroes and villains of Christmas pantomimes
They’ve been topping the bill for hundreds of years, now some of Britain's favourite pantomime characters are set to take centre stage on millions of Christmas stamps. Royal Mail is issuing six Pantomime stamps on November 4 showing characters from four of the country's most loved pantomimes - Aladdin, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and Snow White ...
Six months to prepare 'The Special One'
Rushstamps has just issued its latest price list Rush Express 61 which, it claims, has taken six months to prepare because of the ever-changing market. Dubbed 'The Special One', it has been fully reviewed updated, and repriced, with many new sections, says Allan Grant ... enquiries@rushstamps.co.uk ...
Also ...
New IRC unveiled
Wrong Guernsey Stamp Co advert
Palestine to exchange mail directly
World Cup and Expo sheets from Spain
Team GB Olympic medallists on stamps?
Special features this month
Olympex: a report from the front line - David Maiden.
90th Philatelic Congress of GB - Otto Hornung.
Regulars:
About People
News about stamp people from around the world.
What’s happening in your life - tell the editor!
Around the Rooms
Auction action in the salerooms of Apex, Alliance, and Warwick and Warwick.
Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in September and October 2008 are listed in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
If you would like your public stamp auctions included in the magazine please let the editor have your 2008 and 2009 schedules.
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1958, 1964, 1978, 1988, and 1999.
Crime Column
Queen Victoria collection ... Laindon fair theft ... Bermuda missing in London ... Complete KEVII collections ... Plate 77 1d red ... Torquay update.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Postal administrations and/or agents
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Trade Diary
What's on in the UK and overseas - events in the UK in September and October 2008, and international events up to 2016 are listed in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
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Your Letters
Spooky coincidences ... Not the first ... Thematica rescue attempt ... Bridges the new Rugby?
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From our contributors:
Tony Buckingham - Cover to Cover
Problems, problems, problems
Another month, another set of problems. I’ve been busy organising the Moscow postmarks for the first all-England European Cup Final, when Manchester United beat the local Russian team, Chelsea, on penalties. So busy, in fact, that I almost missed getting some of my air display covers flown by the Red Arrows ...
Also: Red Arrows and Vulcan cover ... Tony takes a tumble ... Trains and Boats and Planes ... Farewell QE2 ... Toulouse or not to lose - the saga continues ... Happy anniversary, Paddington Bear! ... Cooperation.
Michael Burzan - Europe
Condition conference in Hamburg
Stamp condition, description and grading, is becoming increasingly important for the purposes of pricing, especially in countries where the market for standard material is more or less 'saturated'. But the definitions in catalogues, dealers' offers and experts' certificates vary enormously around the world ...
Also: Unissued Olympic stamps go for gold ... Remembering the 1958 Brussels Expo ... Largest engraving from Liechtenstein ... European 'musts': PRAGA and WIPA.
Read the column in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
O J Hill - Great Britain
You never know what's coming!
The beauty of being a stamp dealer, or collector, is that one never knows what is around the corner, or on the next page of a stamp album. Recently I stumbled across several items of interest, all in the space of a couple of weeks ...
Read the column in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
The fair way forward?
Well known philatelist, Peter Rickenback, has been musing over the future of the annual London Postcard Show for some time. Peter has traded in postcards "and other things" since long before many of today's dealers were born! As a member of the Postcard Traders' Association he is as concerned as all members about the future of the trade and in particular the future of the annual show ...
Also: Postcard revival ... Where to file? ... Dating by fashion ... He sold his own grandmother! ... A tale of two Lizzies ... Autumn Paris fair ... Fair diary.
Read the column in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - Australasia
Seeing double in Roos Well, ‘it never rains but it pours’ as the old saying goes. Not just one previously unknown First Watermark Kangaroo was recently auctioned with a ‘kiss print’, - but two! ...
Also: Olympex a smash!
Read the column in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Les Winick - USA
Final curtain call for Disney series
The most popular stamp series of all times is being laid to rest. The 'King' Elvis Presley stamp sold an estimated 124.1 million stamps, but Mickey Mouse is the most popular stamp series with 211.5 million collected. The final debut for the Art of Disney series, four 42c stamps, took place on August 7 in front of the Sleeping Beauty castle in Disneyland, California ...
Also: Postal administrations failing philately ... Let philatelists run philatelic departments ... Landmark ruling ... Millionaire market ... Saturday deliveries under threat.
Read the column in the September 2008 Philatelic Exporter.