'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.
April 2009
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter
London 2010 stand sell-out confirmed
With the deadline for the payment of non-refundable deposits having passed, the London 2010 organisers say that only a few of the original stand applicants have backed out. Their stands, however, have been swiftly taken up by some of those on the waiting list. The list of standholders and a floor plan can be found on the London 2010: Festival of Stamps website ...
Bushfires charity auction raises $120,000
Melbourne auctioneer Prestige Philately achieved a 100% clearance rate for its March 13 auction of 519 donated lots for the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Relief Fund which benefited by over A$120,000 (£56,500, US$79,000) ...
Barrington Smith takes over Sherford
Sherford Stamp Company, the Taunton-based philatelic accessory and publication wholesaler, ceased trading on March 27 2009. The trading name and customer list, but not the remaining stocks, have been acquired by Barrington Smith of Leicester ...
Missing in the mail
A PACKAGE sent from the UK to the Netherlands on March 2 by 'Signed For' has gone missing. It contained this GB £1 brown-lilac, sound used, SG132.
If you are offered this stamp please contact Graham Mann on 01584 891383, stampmann@stampsuk.com or the PTS on 01252 628006, office.pts@btinternet.com
Ten endangered plants from around Britain
The third in the Royal Mail series Action for Species, featuring ten of the UK’s most endangered plants, will be issued on May 19 2009. The se-tenant block of ten '1st' stamps (39p each) shows the following plants ... :
Also ...
Cathedrals majestic in 2008
Zimbabwe revalues yet again
Celebrity mums’ charity Smilers
Mayday stamps secure top award
Optimistic Spring Rush Telegraph
China and Essen shows imminent
London Bridges onwards and upwards
Stolen South African material resurfacing
Australia celebrates 200 years of postal service
80,000 undelivered items recovered by Royal Mail
Phoenix Auctions and Stamp News escape the inferno
Special features this month
Exchange Rates of the Currencies of the Postal Administrations of the World.
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 Alliance, Essex, Brian Reeve, Warwick & Warwick.
Auction houses
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Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in April and May 2009 are listed in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1955, 1969, 1971, 1982, and 1998.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the April 2009 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 April and May 2009, and international events up to 2016, are listed in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
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Your Letters
Disappointing Jersey (and Jersey Post's Response) ... Sticky Situations ... Thanks!
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From our contributors:
Michael Burzan - Europe
Sweden's grading system explained
As a speaker at the recent seminar on philatelic quality at the Schwanke auction house in Hamburg, Dr Helena Obermüller Wilén, expert on Swedish stamps, explained the system of grading that was developed in the early 1970s: "In Sweden everything has to be defined exactly" she said ...
Also:
Remembering Handel ... Swiss satin stamps ... Turkish Europa errors.
Read the column in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Looking forward to summer at the seaside
With all the snow and bitter cold many of us here in Britain have endured recently, summer still seems far away but in the meantime let's warm to the theme of this year's Picture Postcard Show (September 3 to 5) which will be the 'Seaside' ...
Also:
August Bloomsbury put back a week ... Disappointment ... Fewer postcards at London stamp shows ... Nice to meet you, Ann-Marie ... Cock-a-doodle-doo! ... April Fair Diary.
Read the column in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
James Skinner - Great Britain
Nightmare in Islington - II
If 2008 was a horror movie of a year in terms of new stamp releases, it would have been extraordinarily naïve to have imagined that this year would prove to be anything other than a predictably tacky sequel.
Although the bones of what we could expect in the first six months were notified to us back in September of last year, the flesh had not yet been added to the second half of 2009. We were availed of these details at the regular Royal Mail briefing during Spring Stampex, made to a packed audience at the Islington Hilton ... So, let's delve into Pandora’s Box, starting with a brief recap of those issues that have yet to be released but which we have previously covered ...
Read the column in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - USA
Perforation variations on Tourism 2008
I recently got an email from Sam Seigel, manager at Max Stern & Co, which is by far the largest new issue dealer here in Australia.
Sam outlined an important new discovery, that is sure to be listed by SG and Scott, etc. I know Hugh Jefferies, the editor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly, generally reads these columns, so hopefully these can be noted.
It is a major perforation variety on the Australia September 2008 'Tourist Precincts' issue. Sam advises the stamps are found with differing perforations. The stamps in the presentation pack are perf 14 x 14¾, and the sheet stamps 14 x 13¾. I have no idea which is harder to find, but the pack version is my strong guess ...
One of the seven Tourism stamps
Also:
Soaking modern stamps ... Bushfire tragedy ... Simon Dunkerley.
Read the column in the April 2009 Philatelic Exporter.