XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

I ask all the important questions here at Xanthe's Stamp Magazine. For example... Is Royal Mail too interested in the commercial side of things? Why are Polish stamps so good? What are the best ways for young collectors to get their stamps? And are some stamps just not worth the money? (If they're gold stamps with a cartoon picture of Garfield, then the answer is they're definitely not.) I have been looking at German stamps this week and one of them raises an even more imp

Ireland isn't a country that creates a huge sets (are you reading, Royal Mail?) and this issue of four stamps celebrates modern Irish literary fiction. I don't know a lot about Irish fiction. It's fair to say, I often don't know much about the subjects on commemorative stamps, which is why stamp collecting is so interesting - it teaches you so much about the world. You might thing that the stamps show book covers but actually they don't. These are designs by The books are:

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

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...