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I have recently started a thematic collection of penguins. If you're into penguins then you may like stamps from places like the Falkland islands, Chile and the Antarctic Territories as they often create issues about penguins. After all, they have quite a lot of them! Recently I ordered a lot of stamps from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. Some of these were for my collection of penguins but not all. One of the sets I bought was this one, which is their most recent iss

So, this is a set that I just HAVE to review. How many countries dedicate stamps to celebrate PHILATELISTS? Not many, although I have just discovered that Hungary has for many years and in 2017 Greece did the same with this interesting set (below). No women on there, I see... but fantastic to recognise philatelists. These stamps from Hungary are the latest in a serious of "personalised stamps" (I think a bit like the Smilers stamps some of you will remember) and they are bas

Tomorrow Switzerland will release nine new issues - yes, nine! That is a lot but of course it is worth pointing out that most of these are just single stamps, with two sets containing four stamps and one three. So that gives us a total of 17 new stamps - pretty much the same as when Royal Mail create a new issue with a miniature sheet. As there are so many of them on several different themes, I am not going to give detailed reviews, just a few sentences. Some of these are ve