XANTHE'S
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In the last few days there have been three new sets of religious stamps released, which I am going to take a look at. MALTA - Festa The first of them is from Malta. This is a place I have been to and while I was quite young I just about remember it. Malta has strong Roman Catholic traditions, and is supposed to be a place visited by St Paul. So it isn't too surprising that they often create stamps on a religious theme. The theme for this set is Festa. What is a festa? That'

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