XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

For the last few months I've been reviewing new stamp issues from Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and occasionally anywhere else that has an eye-catching or interesting new release. At the end of the year, I've looked back over the scores I have given and created a league table. It is definitely interesting! Because of my ratings give a score in six different categories, it doesn't always follow that the stamps I like least are at the bottom - there was on

I haven't reviewed many new issues recently and that is because there haven't been many new issues! Once the Christmas stamps are out that usually is the end of new issues for the year. I have reviewed most of this year's Christmas issues here. However, there have been one or two new issues that have nothing to do with Christmas including this from Serbia, which was released on 8th December. It is very different and I thought it deserved a review. The stamps show Serbia's fem

Apologies that I haven't written very much recently. My dad has not been well and he helps with the editing. Also, there's a lot of things that happen in schools in December and it is fair to say that I have been a bit distracted. However, last week I was looking on the Jersey Stamps facebook page. They have issued a fabulous set of Christmas stamps called "Letters to Santa" which celebrated Christmas while also promoting letter writing. Most people were leaving very positive