'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.
August 2009
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter
Michael Jackson forgeries - spot the differences!
With the death of Michael Jackson in June, crude forgeries of the 1985 St Vincent Leaders of the World Michael Jackson stamps and miniature sheets are being touted for sale as the genuine items, possibly unwittingly. They are believed to have been created in the UK in the late 1990s and are easily detected mainly by the cheap and dull paper that was used ...
NZ pictorials missing in California
On or soon after April 8 2009, within the United States Postal Service, San Francisco, an international airmail registered letter destined for a Californian city about 40 miles away went missing. It contained a valuable consignment of New Zealand 1935 Pictorials; service@cpnzstamps.co.nz, fax +64 9 379 3087 ...
Stamp Active Network seeks donations
With London 2010 looming ever nearer, the National Youth Stamp Group is seeking donations for its Stamp Active Network which helps and encourages young collectors in the pursuit of the their hobby; stampactive@btinternet.com ...
Firefighters featured
To be issued by Royal Mail on September 1 2009, the Fire and Rescue Service stamps turn the spotlight on those who regularly risk their own lives to save others, and the testing conditions they operate under ...
Navy completes Uniforms series
Royal Mail launches the third and final issue in its Military Uniforms series by highlighting the history of the Royal Navy on September 17 2009 ...
Serbians selling Kosovo forgeries
According to the website of Kosovo Post (www.postaekosoves.net), forgeries of its stamps are being sold through several websites based in Belgrade, Serbia, and on eBay ...
Also ...
An Post has a Guinness
Third London 2010 postcard
Online access to legal services
Collectors scrum at Twickenham
AIDS anniversary stamps in 2011
Parcelforce launches new services
Dealers’ bourse at APS StampShow
Royal Mail privatisation off - for now
Bath Postal Museum celebrates 30th anniversary
Special features
Peter Jennings: First Michael Jackson stamps vetoed by the FO.
Ray Haffner: Sunny Swinpex.
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 Harmers, Tony Lester, Stanley Gibbons, and Warwick & Warwick.
Auction houses
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Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in August and September 2009 are listed in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1951, 1968, 1974, 1983, and 1992.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
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Trade Diary
What's on in the UK and overseas - events in the UK in August and September 2009, and international events up to 2016, are listed in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
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From our contributors:
Tony Buckingham - Cover to Cover
Card confusion and chaos!
I don't know about you but I have been having a dreadful time with my bank in regards to credit cards. The card is invaluable to me when dealing overseas. I have a dollar account, both in New York and Auckland to keep it simple when I am buying from abroad. I just want an easy life ...
Also: Change in credit card information storage laws ... Certificates - are they worth the paper they’re printed on? ... Not the right result!
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Michael Burzan - 19th Century Classics
Top 100 19th century classics, part 1: 100 to 91.
At the end of the 19th century a list of the world’s 100 rarest stamps had been compiled in Great Britain. The renowned stamp dealer, philatelic writer and editor, Paul Lietzow of Berlin, published this list in his monthly publication Die Post in February 1899. Over the next ten months, up to and including May 2010, I will rediscover the stamp rarities of those past times and, in some cases, look at their market value then and now ...
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Michael Burzan - Europe
Looking at both sides of the cards
August is the holiday month for Europe, when a lot of picture postcards are still hand-written, franked with stamps, and sent home from many parts of the world ...
Also: Sweden’s Ladybirds ‘explode’! ... Austrian Opera extras ... Popular Poland ... Seminar in Sweden.
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Hobby’s flagship show sets sail at the seaside
This year’s flagship for the hobby of postcard collecting - The Picture Postcard Show - will take place over three days at the beginning of September. The fair opens on Thursday September 3 and closes on Saturday September 5.
The venue as in previous years is the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lawrence Hall at the corner of Greycoat and Elverton Streets in Westminster, London SW1 ...
Also: Going underground ... Art of conversation not quite dead ... Postcards at pets’ place ... August Fair Diary.
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - Great Britain
GB cover with three Plate 77s discovered?
AS I often write: “The last word in philately will never be written.” This month I highlight a rather tatty looking 1865 part cover discovery, that may well be a £250,000 type item – possibly even more. Probably the rarest face different GB stamp ever issued is the 1d Red ‘Plate 77’ from the 1858-1879 series. As all readers will know the 1d stamps issued for about 15 years all had a plate number neatly engraved into the engine turning at each side ...
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Wayne Youngblood - USA
Michael Jackson’s death spurs overpriced collectables
Whenever a popular culture icon dies, new life – however temporary – is breathed into collectables related to that individual, and prices for stamps, coins and other items frequently soar above rational levels for short periods of time. When the tide of emotion recedes, many beginning or marginal collectors are left with the bitter taste of having been taken. Such is the case with pop music star Michael Jackson, who died June 25 at the age of 50. Within hours of Jackson’s death eBay listings for collectables related to him swelled from a few hundred to more than 20,000. A week after his death that number had risen to more than 50,000, with prices for items ranging from a few dollars to well into the millions ...
Also: A US Michael Jackson stamp? ... Karl Malden ... Non-soakable stamps now outnumber soakable ... APS and ASDA elections.
Read the column in the August 2009 Philatelic Exporter.