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'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.
November 2009
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter
Dealer wins again
Last December we reported on how Bruce Goulborn won a case for compensation against Royal Mail over sendings that went missing ... Mr Goulborn of the Rhyl Coin and Stamp Centre in Sussex Street, Rhyl, north Wales, has taken Royal Mail to court again ...
Collector's two million stamps to be auctioned
The hoard of a true stamp collector, in every sense of the term, is to be sold off at auction in Wimborne, Dorset. Former postman Alan Roy, who died earlier this year aged 76, amassed over two million stamps since his childhood, storing them in 40 packing crates crammed into his two-bedroomed flat in Poole ... in a series of sales starting November 28 www.elliottsuk.co.uk ...
UPU celebrates monument centenary on World Post Day
On World Post Day - October 9 - the Universal Postal Union held a double celebration in Berne, commemorating the centenary of its monument and hosting the unveiling of commemorative stamps by Swiss Post and France’s La Poste ...
Museum of the Post Office in the Community opens
The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) has opened the Museum of the Post Office in the Community, an exhibition on the first floor of the Post Office at Blists Hill Victorian Town, at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, near Telford, Shropshire www.ironbridge.org.uk ...
Ecuador bicentenary on cork stamp
On August 14 2009 Ecuador issued a set of stamps and a miniature sheet celebrating the bicentenary of the country’s independence. One of the stamps - shown here - was printed on a cork-based paper by French security printers Cartor ...
New Zealand joins NVI club
Joining the increasing number of countries to issue stamps with ‘No Value Indicated’ is New Zealand which, on September 7, issued a set of ten ‘KiwiStamps’ ...
Top Ten Classic Album Covers start 2010
Great music and great art – Royal Mail launches its 2010 special stamps programme with ten iconic record album covers from the past four decades. Classic Album Covers, to be released on January 7, features some of the greatest examples of album design, brought to life on ten self-adhesive 1st class stamps featuring an unusual off-square design ...
Also: License required for World Cup logo ... No Elvis stamp from Cameroon ... Afghanistan warning ... ATA celebrates 60th anniversary ... Morocco launches online philatelic bureau ... A good year for Guernsey Post ... Post Poland established ... Kidderminster connection ... ‘Recorded Signed For’ stamps ... Bill Gross collections to benefit Smithsonian National Postal Museum ... Russia to assist Abkhazia postal independence
Special features
London 2010: Festival of Stamps shaping up nicely.
Regulars:
About People
News about people in the international world of stamps.
What’s happening in your life - tell the editor!
Around the Rooms
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 November and December 2009 are listed in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
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Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1958, 1963, 1978, 1989, and 1998.
Crime Column
Aphrodite covers ... Sweden 1 and 2 on cover.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the November 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 November and December 2009, and international events up to mid-2011, are listed in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
If you would like your stamp exhibitions or fairs included in these listings please let the editor have your 2010 schedules.
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Your Letters
Have you got a view to express about any aspect of the stamp trade?
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From our contributors:
Tony Buckingham - Cover to Cover
Not even the trains run on time for a cover dealer
Lately I have been through a bad patch - those of you who think a bad patch is missing out buying a few things at auction do not know you are born ...
Also: We get more like the supermarkets every day ... Blériot crash landing.
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Michael Burzan - 19th Century Classics
Top 100 19th century classics, part 4: 70 to 61.
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Michael Burzan - Europe
UPU monument centenary in Berne
One hundred years ago the famous UPU monument ‘Around the World’ was unveiled in Switzerland’s capital Berne ...
Also: 150 years of postage dues ... Parma's rare provisionals ...Artist postcard sells for €20,000!.
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Paul Dauwalder - Great Britain
Talking shop
I have missed the Great Britain column so ably provided by James Skinner, so when editor Graham Phillips called at our stand at Stampex, I asked if a volunteer columnist had been found - me and my big mouth! ...
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Castles in the air?
As I mentioned in my September column, Michael Goldsmith, the well known fair organiser and postcard dealer, was contemplating what he described as “New and exciting ways to promote the future and preserve the past.” ...
Also: Stamp story no 1 ... Stamp Story no 2 ... Cartexpo January 2010 ... A lesson learnt ... Who? ... November Fair Diary.
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - Australasia
Australian ‘SPECIMEN’ stamp folders
I often get asked by serious local collectors of a suggestion for an interesting ‘new’ field to collect. One that has no catalogues or listings, yet has material readily findable, with good chances of some decent finds here and there, has some ‘blue sky’ and, most importantly, something that offers a challenge! ...
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.
Wayne Youngblood - USA
USPS now opening Media Mail
As a result of abuse of the class of mail known as Media Mail, postal clerks and postmasters have now been directed to open Media Mail – both incoming and outgoing – in an attempt to catch offenders ...
Also: The show experiment ... Post office closures still anticipated ... Learnaboutstamps website loaded with references ... Diversity committee approved ... Dealer community loses auctioneers.
Read the column in the November 2009 Philatelic Exporter.