FEBRUARY 2016 5STAMPS
FEBRUARY 2016 CONTENTS
9 STAMP UPDATE
Serbia honours British war
heroines. 2015 yearbooks.
Unique stamp sheet
featuring 27 nations’
stamps. Limited edition
Star Wars PSB and more...
36 ENDURANCE STAMPS
Royal Mail’s latest stamps
look back on the
Endurance expedition
39 KING EDWARD’S STAMPS
The story of the King
Edward VIII definitives
issued eighty years ago
42 1960s STAMP REVOLUTION
Peter Marren assesses
the GB stamps of 1966,
which saw a change in
design and approach
48 AROUND THE ISLANDS
Guernsey, the Isle of
Man and Jersey stamps
51 NEW! WHY COLLECT?
Stamps of Monaco
52 DEAD COUNTRIES
Stamps of Hyderabad55 STAMP STORY
How the USA’s simple
locomotive stamp of 1869
captured the period
58 NEW! READER’S STAMPS
Our new series showcases
a stunning collection of
New Zealand errors
62 MAIL TRAIN ROBBERIES
The trials of the Travelling
Post Office over the years
66 COLLECTING THE EMPIRE
The stamps and postal
history of St Helena
70 COVER EXPLAINED
We follow the journey
of a 1934 airmail cover
74 COLLECT BY THEME
Our in-depth thematics
section provides inspiration
for icebergs, coins, and
planes on stamps
109 STAMP MISCELLANY
The story of an intriguing
pair of USA stamps
from 1925, celebrating
Norwegian immigrants94 COIN UPDATE
Celtic coins auction.
‘Dished’ Magna Carta
coin. Tokens and the
latest auction results
97 MARKET INSIGHT
The latest internet prices
and ‘Coins on a budget’
98 CAMPGATE COINS
Steve Webb highlights
an inexpensive Roman
series that offers wide
collecting potential and
a few puzzling questions
still in need of answers
102 BRITISH COINS OF 1936
We examine the
notable coins produced
or planned for the ‘year
of the three kings’
104 BRITISH MUSEUM
An 18th-century French
medal commemorating
a battle from Napoleon’s
Egyptian campaign
now held at the
British Museum17 BPMA UPDATE
News from the British
Postal Museum & Archive
18 MARKET INSIGHT
Latest prices and opinion
25 OPINION
The future for
British stamp shops
28 STAMP SIDELINES
Post & Go, postmarks,
FDCs, Cinderellas, stamp
errors, and pre-cancels
56 JOIN S&CM TODAY
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80 OUT AND ABOUT
Fairs and auctions, and
the latest society news
85 NEW STAMPS
The latest new stamps
listed in detail
105 CLASSIFIED ADS Buy, sell
and swap. Subscribers
advertise for free!
110 ADVERTISER INDEX
A to Z guide to advertisersCOINS REGULARS
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