'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 2008
All these News stories, and others, can be read in full in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter
Investors boost SG sales and profits
The Stanley Gibbons Group's audited results for the year ending December 31 2007 show pre-tax profits of £4.62 million (2006: £3.75m) on sales of £20.2m (2006: £16.7m) ... Mike Hall, chief executive, commented: ... Collectables as an asset class are growing and tighter economic conditions are resulting in an increasing number of investors turning to our products as a means of protecting their wealth ...
Dorset dealer's "breathtaking dishonesty"
Dorset stamp dealer Philip Clarke (60) was sentenced on March 20 to 21 months’ imprisonment ...
Insects not to be stamped on!
Royal Mail highlights the plight of ten scarce or threatened UK insects which are struggling for survival ...
SG's new Zoom Digital Microscope
Stanley Gibbons Ltd has launched an exciting and innovative product that will greatly simplify the close study and inspection of stamps ...
Inside Britain's cathedrals
Some of the UK’s most striking cathedrals appear on six new stamps and a miniature sheet to be issued on May 13 ...
China 2009 Exhibition in the 'Peony City'
Under the patronage of FIP, the China 2009 World Stamp Exhibition will be held in Luoyang City, Henan province, China from April 10 to 16 next year ... www.luoyang2009.cn
Iraq war commemorative stamps appeal exceeds 10,000 signatures
More than 10,000 people had signed (as at March 10) The Art Fund’s online petition supporting the campaign for Royal Mail to issue the commemorative stamps created by official war artist and Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen in his work Queen and Country, each dedicated to a member of the armed forces who has lost their life in Iraq ... www.artfund.org/queenandcountry
Also ...
Mozambique issues
ASDA seeks new CEO
Fall Mega-Event changes
Olympex heralds a new era
Working with young collectors
Titanic sinking series launched
Two new products from Spectronics
British 2009 special stamps schedule
Special features this month
Stampex report and pictures
What the 2008 Budget means for your business
Speaking in Tongues: How having a multi-lingual website can increase your business
Regulars:
About People
What’s happening in your life - tell the editor!
Around the Rooms
Auction action in the salerooms of Warwick & Warwick and Prestige.
Auction Diary
Public stamp auctions around the world in April and May 2008 are listed in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Auction houses
If you would like your public stamp auctions included in the magazine please let the editor have your 2008 schedules.
For more publicity for your auctions why not advertise them in the 'Philatelic Exporter'? Contact our advertising department
Back Stamps
What was in The Philatelic Exporter this month in 1953, 1966, 1978, 1988, and 1999.
New Issues
Hundreds of new stamp issues from around the world are listed in the April 2008 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.
For increased publicity, why not advertise your new issues?
Trade Diary
What's on in the UK and overseas - events in the UK in April and May 2008, and international events up to 2010 are listed in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Event organisers
If you would like your stamp exhibitions or fairs included in these listings please let the editor have your 2008 schedules.
For more publicity for your events why not advertise them in the 'Philatelic Exporter'?
Your Letters
Have you got a view to express about any aspect of the postage stamp trade?
Fancy a moan, a gripe, or a groan?
Or a complaint or compliment, a bouquet or brickbat?
Want to get something off your chest?
Then contact the editor.
From our contributors:
James Skinner - Great Britain
Onslaught Of new issues
There they stand at the top of the hill, menacing in all their glory. They start to move forward in massed ranks, slowly at first then gradually increasing in pace, as they tumble down the hill towards us. As they come closer their ghastly colours and sharp, bristling edges become clearer - a seductive mixture of both beauty and danger. On and on they come, a seemingly never ending tide, until they are upon us, sweeping over us, their sheer weight of numbers overcoming us, drowning us ...
Read the column in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Liz McKernan - Postcard World
Foraging further afield
This is the time of year when many people's thoughts are
turning towards holidays. For dealers and collectors alike the destinations chosen will often coincide with postcard fairs and lists of local markets will be examined to see whether any might be likely to yield up old postcards ...
Also:
Strange affairs ... More postcards in the Daily Mail ... Time to reminisce ... More closures ... Fair Diary.
Read the column in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
David Rennie - New Books
All reviewed in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Glen Stephens - Australasia
Please use S T A M P S !!
Readers of my columns over the last 25 years will recognise that this is one of my pet 'hobby horses', so I make no apology for raising it yet again! Nothing bugs me more than receiving from a dealer or collector a parcel that cost many dollars or pounds to mail, and seeing two near worthless high-value definitives on it as franking. Or, far worse still, a printed label - value zero! ...
Also:
Going for gold ... AP Variations catalogue ... Surprise NZ collection.
Read the column in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.
Les Winick - USA
Coping with recession
There is a strange financial situation going on in the United States, and starting to spread throughout the world ...
Also:
New uses for old buildings ... TV series to boost letter-writing? ... Soaking aid to disappear ... Snow mail ... Indian coin cover.
Read the column in the April 2008 Philatelic Exporter.