XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

Royal Mail has been issuing stamps for 185 years and in that time there have been some classic stamp designs. Everyone has their favourite Royal Mail designs. Maybe it is the Penny Black? The Wembley 1924 stamp? Perhaps it is the Seahorses, or maybe something more modern like Machins, the David Gentleman designs (the 1966 World Cup, the Battle of Hastings, Concorde, Churchill, Darwin or Swans) or perhaps some of the Christmas issues down the years? But I was thinking that in

I have been looking through my collection and I came across this letter written to Alex Robertson in 1854. I bought it originally because...

On Saturday I was at a stamp fair in Liverpool where I picked up three covers and a postcard with censor stamps. Three of these are from...

This week Royal Mail will be releasing a set of stamps featuring British ducks. They're very nice and I will be reviewing them in a few...

Earlier this year a stamp dealer called Robert Laidler , who sent me approvals, told me about these stamps issued by Greenland and...

I was in a National Trust bookshop last week. I always enjoy looking for books and found some that interested me. My dad found a couple...

A "Sieger cover" Did you know that some stamps have actually travelled to the Moon and back? It sounds incredible, but it's true! Back...