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APRIL 2016 CONTENTS

9 STAMP UPDATE

Australian ‘emergency

stamps’, Stampex report,

Postal Museum launch

38 BRITISH HUMANITARIANS

Royal Mail honours

six altruistic Britons

40 THE BARD’S STAMPS

Behind the scenes of

the 1964 Shakespeare

Festival stamps

44 AROUND THE ISLANDS

The latest stamps form

Guernsey, the Isle of

Man and Jersey

48 WHY COLLECT?

A special guide to the

stamps of the Faroe Islands

55 STAMP STORY

The intriguing story of

the stamps of Stellaland

59 DEAD COUNTRIES

The stamps of Wrangel’s

Army, a defeated army

which produced stamps

while living in Turkish

refugee camps

60 STAMP SHOWCASE

Our regular showcase of

philatelic displays,

produced in association

with the ABPS, examines

one collector’s

fascinating display on

the stamps of Sarawak

66 COLLECTING THE EMPIRE

The stamp and postal

history of the Cape of

Good Hope including the

famous triangular stamps

70 COVER EXPLAINED

The poignant tale of

a piece of wartime mail

that apparently escaped

the censors

72 COLLECT BY THEME

Our regular thematics

guide includes knitting,

William Shakespeare and

humanitarians on stamps

141 STAMP MISCELLANY

Stamps celebrating the

life and work of French

artist Paul Gauguin

126 COIN UPDATE

Rare US coin goes on

tour of UK. Beatrix Potter

coins from Royal Mint.

Plus, talking tokens...

129 MARKET INSIGHT

The latest internet prices

and ‘Coins on a budget’

130 INCREDIBLE HOARDS

A new British Museum

exhibition which features

coin hoards discovered in

the UK over the years

134 SHAKESPEARE’S COINS

As we mark the 400th

anniversary of William

Shakespeare’s death,

Ed Archer provides a

guide to the coins

mentioned in his plays

and used in his lifetime

136 BRITISH MUSEUM

Richard Kelleher

describes a unique medal

celebrating Sir Francis

Drake’s circumnavigation

of the globe

18 MARKET INSIGHT

Latest prices at

auction and online

25 OPINION

Is the torrent of new

issues from Royal Mail

finally going to stop?

29 STAMP SIDELINES

Post & Go, postmarks,

FDCs, Cinderellas, stamp

errors, and your in-depth

guide to Victorian

postmarks. Plus, postal

curiosities of the past

56 JOIN S&CM TODAY

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and a STAMP ALBUM!

81 OUT AND ABOUT

Fairs and auctions, and

the latest society news

117 NEW STAMPS

The latest new stamps

listed in detail

138 CLASSIFIED ADS Buy, sell

and swap. Subscribers

advertise for free!

142 ADVERTISER INDEX

COINS REGULARS

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