A new, annual National Stamp Celebration Day, held in association with The Philatelic Traders’ Society, is being launched this year to celebrate and promote philately. The celebration will be held today, the 4th of May, to commemorate the world’s first ever adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, which was issued on 1 May 1840 but officially used from 6 May.
From the Great Britain Royal Silver Wedding set of 1972 until the 1979 Christmas set, the printer Harrison & Sons Ltd. placed what have become known as "traffic lights" in the gutter margin of stamp sheets, giving rise to the...
Sharks have featured regularly on stamps of many countries and the first example shown here graphically illustrates why one would not want to be confronted with this particular species. British Indian Ocean Territory 1994 Various British Commonwealth territories have issued...
Gibraltar produced stamps in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the supersonic aircraft "Concorde". The Concorde was designed and built by four collaborating companies, two in the United Kingdom - British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce - and two...
Harry Potter Christmas stamp, Netherlands 2005 Harry Potter is possibly the world's most popular wizard, and author J.K. Rowling's fictional character's exploits have been the subject of many stamp issues. The first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was...
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