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Spanish arrests shake the stamp world

POLICE raided the offices of two Madrid stamp companies on May 10 and arrested nine men on a range of charges including embezzlement, forgery, fraud, fraudulent bankruptcy, money laundering, and tax evasion. The arrests were the culmination of Operation Atrio, an investigation lasting several months by the Spanish authorities into stamp investment schemes ...

Modern British Architecture showcased

ROYAL Mail showcases six unique British buildings on a new set of special stamps to be issued on June 20 2006 to coincide with Architecture Week (June 16-25). The stamps depict some of the very best examples of modern architecture created this millennium.

MBE for IoM's Dot

TUCKED away in the Isle of Man's Summer 2006 edition of Manx Stamp News is the news that Dot Tilbury, head of the Philatelic Bureau, was awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours List ...

Queen's 60th on Thematica sheet

THEMATICA 2006 will take place as its usual venue of the Carisbrooke Hall, 63 Seymour Street, London W2, a short walk from Marble Arch off Edgware Road, on Saturday June 24 and Sunday June 25. Opening times are 10.30 to 17.30, and 10.30 to 17.00 respectively ...

Jewish cover salutes the Queen

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DISAPPOINTED that the Jewish faith will not be represented in Royal Mail's Europa/Cultural Diversity set in October 2006, Alan Benjamin produced this fdc and cancellation for the Queen's 80th birthday ...

NSD still exists - just!

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SHORTLY after his 'Whatever happened to National Stamp Day?' feature appeared last month Brian Sole learnt that there was to be a special handstamp sponsored by the British Postal Museum & Archive ...

Machin an Icon

WHEN the second batch of English National Icons was announced in April among them was the Machin stamp, now in its 40th year ...

Quality and security certificates for Cartor and Walsall

CARTOR Security Printing and Walsall Security Printers, members of the International Security Printers have both been certified compliant with the requirements of the CWA 14641:2003 Security Management System standard ...

1966 and all that

WITH the 2006 World Cup almost upon us there has been much reminiscing about 1966 when England won the trophy for the first and only (so far) time.

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But there is another aspect of the 1966 World Cup which has been recalled, namely the theft on March 20 of the Jules Rimet Trophy from Central Hall, Westminster, where it was on display at the Stanley Gibbons stand at Stampex ...

New wholesale list from VT

VERA Trinder Ltd has recently published its 2006 Wholesale Price List, which was distributed with last month's PE to UK subscribers only ... www.vtrinder.co.uk

"Take advantage of the poor old NZ dollar"

... is the advice given by Don White with the publication of his 2006 (28th edition) Price List from Dunedin Stamp Centre ... www.dunedinstamps.co.nz

Le Salon focuses on travel

TRAVEL through stamps is the theme of this year's Le Salon du Timbre & de l'Ecrit, which will take place on Saturday June 17 to Sunday June 25 at the Parc Floral de Paris, France ... www.salondutimbre.fr

This month's special feature:

Peter McBride visits Bangkok and Burma

Bangkok 2007: advance notice

DURING a recent stop-over in Bangkok, I decided to visit the proposed venue for the FIP/FIAP exhibition scheduled for Bangkok in August 2007. It is located on the top floor of the newest, most luxurious, and most expensive shopping centre in downtown Bangkok. It is just beside the British Embassy in Wireless Road, which created a Thai record by selling a plot of land for one million baht per square foot (B70 = £1 approx). Good for British taxpayers if the money is repatriated! ...

Myanmar meanderings

EVER thought it is complicated and time-consuming to post a few registered airmail letters with the new computers installed at British Post Office counters as part of an efficiency and anti-theft improvement programme? Simplicity perfected, compared to what follows!

So spare a few thoughts for our colleagues in Myanmar, the current and original name of the area in south-east Asia named as Burma by the colonial power ...

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