'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.
July 2009
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter
Croatia critical of Italy
In a complaint to the Universal Postal Union earlier this year the Croatian postal authority has accused its Italian counterpart of “inappropriate conduct” concerning the issue of this stamp on December 10 2007 ...
San Marino preparing 3D stamps
To celebrate the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, San Marino will issue a set of six 3D stamps on three souvenir sheets on August 25, along with a stereoscopic postcard to view the stamps ...
Escala becomes Spectrum
Escala Group Inc has changed its corporate name to Spectrum Group International Inc, effective May 22 2009 ...
David Feldman to open in New York
David Feldman SA, one of the world’s leading philatelic auction houses, is to open an office in New York City under the name David Feldman USA ...
SG pledges continued support of youth philately
Stanley Gibbons has recently announced its continuing support for youth philately in the UK ...
London stamp shop NOT closed
Contrary to the report on page 6 of the June 2009 Exporter, the stamp shop at 110 St Martins Lane, London WC2N 4AZ, has NOT closed ...
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Japan’s first hologram stamps were issued on June 30 2009 in this souvenir sheet marking the International Polar Year. |
Also ...
Kids in Korea
Brazil nuts about joint issues
Charity sheet in aid of SPANA
Imperfs discovered 25 years on
Second pair of Bhutan CD stamps
Royal Mail retains VAT exemption
Manchester dealers move to golf club
‘Rowland Hill’ to greet Midpex visitors
Marketing website for small businesses
Royal Mail’s latest crisis - rubber bands!
PostEurop mediates in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Isle of Man business sheet recalls First Moon Landing
Georgia condemns Abkhazia and South Ossetia illegals
Special features
Exchange Rates of the Currencies of the Postal Administrations of the World.
Regulars:
About People
News about stamp people from around the world.
Derrick Webster obituary.
What’s happening in your life - tell the editor!
Around the Rooms
Auction action in the salerooms of Cavendish, Grosvenor, and Warwick & Warwick.
Auction houses
If you would like your public stamp auction results mentioned in the magazine let the editor have details of any noteworthy items.
Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in July and August 2009 are listed in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1953, 1962, 1973, 1985, and 1999.
Crime Column
Lost, found, and who are they?
Great Britain
Summer sheets
Although there are no individual commemorative stamps scheduled for issue by Royal Mail in July and August, there is a variety of other products to fill the void. On
July 21, a commemorative sheet marking the 40th Anniversary of the first Man on the Moon will be issued ...
Also:
Aurelius KEVII in demand ... 'Delivering the Mail' stamp sheet ... BPMA
Search Room closed for eight weeks.
Read the column in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Postal administrations and/or agents
If you do not already do so, send to the editor details of your new stamp issues for inclusion in the 'New Issues' listing.
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Trade Diary
What's on in the UK and overseas - events in the UK in July and August 2009, and international events up to 2016, are listed in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
If you would like your stamp exhibitions or fairs included in these listings please let the editor have your 2009 schedules.
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Your Letters
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From our contributors:
Michael Burzan - Europe
Ten years of the euro
This year 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the common euro currency, introduced on January 1 1999 ...
Also:
Most beautiful European stamps ... More Hepburn auction results ... Many new Zeppelin forgeries!
Read the column in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Window-dressing on the web
What do you do with all your unloved common Greetings postcards? I have found out what one enterprising American dealer does with them - he has a website selling them! We are all familiar with what I call ‘Sunday supplement language’ when so-called treasures are praised to the hilt in flowery language ...
Also:
‘Ping your default gateway!’ ... Stamp montage article a must ... Oxfam collectables online ... LL enthusiasts see Manchester fakes ... Rubbish cards ... July fair diary
Read the column in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - The View from Down Under
The Audrey Hepburn stamp saga - episode five
In late 2007 German metal worker Thomas Boche paid €55 for a large box containing thousands of envelope clippings with stamps on them, ie kiloware, on eBay. When Boche looked through the box he found a number of stamps suitable for his collection, including one German stamp with an Audrey Hepburn design which he did not recognise. Initially he did not pay much attention to this find. It was only months later that he researched the unidentified Hepburn stamp on the Internet, and found newspaper articles mentioning a record sale price for it in 2006 ...
Also:
Zimbabwe inflation goes mad
Read the column in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Wayne Youngblood - USA
New challenges for an old hobby
For the better part of the past year our hobby and the business of philately have been facing some rather interesting challenges, to say the least ...
Also:
Early Television Memories
Read the column in the July 2009 Philatelic Exporter.