Rainbow_stamps_and_coins

In the series of my self made albums, a new entry on the common design stamps. In 1978, the world, and the British Commenwealth in particula...

From 1858 on, till 1869, new plates were issued, with red pennies, and blue 2 pence stamps. Now the four corners have letters BA- AB for ro...

A third variation of the Victorian pennies: are the perforated red penny and blue 2 pence. They come in two variations, watermark small cro...

A penny for your thoughts, but which one... The 'first' (black) penny is unperforated, and has letters in the bottom corners only. T...

From the 'black penny in 1840, till the emission of 1883, plate numbers can be found on the stamps. Each of the plates had 240 stamps. M...

Numbers have always been appealing to people. But for once, the question is not 'how many stamps do you have'... but which numbers d...

I have posted many nr 1's so far, but the absolute 1st number one is of course the famous 'black penny'. Issued on May 1, 1840, ...

3D stamps will always be spectacular. to look at... Not to print, or to be put on a website like this one. Thunderbirds' lenticular...

Saint Kilda, who was Saint Kilda... In fact no one ever was saint Kilda, since that person never existed. And yet, there are stamps of ...

I do love Scotland, and the Scottish people a lot. But when it comes to cinderellas, they are truly very active in issuing bogus st...

After my previous post on the 'stamps' of Staffa, i could not resist posting another amazing topic for collecting. The 'carriage...

Staffa is an island on the west coast of Scotland. It's part of the Inner Hebrids and it's located about 10 kilometres west of the I...