XANTHE'S
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The following stamp fairs will take place in December. Wednesday   3rd December CIRENCESTER  - The Bingham Hall, King Street, GL7 1JT Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm Contact: Simon Collyer, 07966 565151 ( ampfairs.co.uk ) Thursday 4th December NORTH CORNELLY - The Choral Suite, Green Acre Motel, 111 Heol Fach, CF33 4LH. Time: 9.00am - 1.00pm Contact: Mark Grimsley Stamp Fairs, 07773 566994 Friday 5th December CANTON (CARDIFF) - St Catherine's Church Hall, Kings Road, CF11 9DE Time

Instead of reviewing different countries' Christmas stamps individually, I thought it would be better to look at them together. I'm not going to give any lengthy reviews - I'll just make a few short comments and give a mark. Here are a few of my thoughts about the different new Christmas stamps from around the world. I've tried to cover as many of them as possible, but no doubt there will be a few countries I have missed. Great Britain I will start with our own Christmas stam

Royal Mail's final issue of 2025 - the sixteenth of the year! - will be a set commemorating the stamps of Queen Victoria. There is no obvious reason for this theme at this time and no anniversary that I can think of that might be being marked. So it's a bit of a strange choice, as there have been previous Royal Mail stamps covering this very theme - take a look below at the 1990 set and the 2015 set marking the 150th and 175th anniversaries of the Penny Black. At least the

There was an interesting new issue this week, when a particular European country decided to celebrate the success of its national football team. Who could it be? Could it have been one of the teams who this week qualified for the World Cup? No. Was it a former winner of the World Cup or the European Championship? No. Maybe it was one of the women's teams? Wrong again. No, it is San Marino, Yes, the team that currently is ranked 210 out of 210 FIFA international teams! Often

It's been a while since I wrote a review of a new issue and that is because most of the new issues at the moment are Christmas stamps. I'm leaving them for a special post at the end of the month where i will compare them all. Jersey Post has released a new issue today and my sister really likes it - then again, she is really into space. She can tell you the names of all the planets, all the dwarf planets, the moons of Jupiter and tell you all about the Apollo missions. On th

Three special stamps! Three new stamps have been issued especially for Xanthe's Stamp Magazine! Technically they are cinderellas rather than real stamps, and they are fantasy issues. I designed these myself, with some help from my parents and AI with the spaceship one. The cat on the left, who is looking at a stamp album, has been made to look like my cat Tai Pan, who sadly is no longer with us. The other cat is my current pet, Izzy. She looks exactly like this! I will be

As some of you will know, I have been looking at different ways to get your stamps. So far, I have considered: 1. Approvals 2. Kidstamps (if you're a young person!) 3. Philatelic Bureaux 4. Stamp fairs Today I have going to look at Ebay and ask how this compares to the others. Lots of people are buying stamps online and Ebay has millions of listings - just today I found 840,000 listings for GB stamps, and that is without looking at the rest of the world. That's a lot of s

Jersey's latest issue is a set of six stamps celebrating the Royal Air Force Association of Jersey' 100th Anniversary. There is also a £5 miniature sheet. Both were illustrated by Harry Milburn, who was inspired by historical RAF recruitment posters. Jersey Post's website states that "each stamp reflects an important element of RAFA Jersey's work". It is interesting that RAFA Jersey was founded in 1925, 18 years prior to the creation of the national RAFA organisation in 1943