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Latin American stamp design and its harshest critic

The Observer's Book of Postage Stamps by Anthony S. B. New

Turn to the letters page of any self-respecting philatelic monthly magazine and you will invariably find a diatribe from a reader bemoaning the paucity of creativity in current-day stamp design. […]

18th December 2023Categories General Philately, PublicationsLeave a Comment3

Costa Rica at The Royal

Roland Nordberg Classic Costa Rica

There are a few ways in which an advanced collection can be shared with fellow philatelists, not least in the global competitive arena in the Quest for Gold. Club displays […]

22nd February 2023Categories Events, People, PublicationsLeave a Comment0

The Postage Stamps & Postal Stationery of Guatemala

Quetzal Guatemala Stamp

We appear to be in something of a Golden Period in the introduction of new resources for the Latin American philatelist. An excellent example is the Mi Oficina YouTube channel […]

1st January 2023Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment3

Venezuela – the final specialized catalogue for 2022

Asofilca Venezuela Specialized Stamp Catalogue

Just as I’d pressed ‘send’ on my recent post about new Latin American catalogues, along comes yet another (very welcome) reference work. This time, it is Venezuela’s turn. The last […]

3rd December 2022Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment7

New Specialized Catalogues: Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru and Paraguay

Cefibol Catalogo Especializado en Filatelia Boliviana

It’s been a good year for new and updated specialized catalogues for the Latin American collector with four catalogues recently published. First up is the Cefibol catalogue – Especializado en […]

1st November 2022Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment3

The Bustamantes of Peru

The Bustamante 2022 'Catalogo Especializado De Las Estampillas Del Peru'

For three generations the Bustamante family has been producing both simplified and specialized catalogues for collectors of Peru. A new edition is planned for publication in 2022 (see details below). […]

11th April 2022Categories People, PublicationsLeave a Comment3

Book Review | The 19th Century Issues of El Salvador 1867-1900. Guillermo F. Gallegos & Joseph D. Hahn

The 19th Century Issues of El Salvador 1867-1900. Guillermo Gallegos & Joseph Hahn

Many of the Latin American republics have had a variety of specialized catalogues and handbooks written over the years but El Salvador has not been one of them. There has […]

20th October 2021Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment0

The Mainsheet goes digital

The Mainsheet

Next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Mainsheet. And to bring it in to the 21st century, the entire run has now been digitised. For […]

9th February 2021Categories People, PublicationsLeave a Comment0

The Collector | Peter Bamert | Mexico

Mexico National Express Co

Peter Bamert is the editor of the ‘Postal Stationery of Mexico’, a comprehensive work that catalogues Mexico’s envelopes, postal cards, wrappers and more. CLA How did you get interested in […]

15th November 2020Categories Publications, The CollectorLeave a Comment1

The Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue: a review

Once upon a time, Stanley Gibbons’ twin volume South America and Central America catalogues were my daily reference tools. They are still powerful weapons in the Latin America collector’s armoury […]

2nd February 2020Categories General Philately, PublicationsLeave a Comment2

New specialized Argentina catalogue published

GJ Specialized Argentina Catalogue

It wasn’t so long ago that stamp catalogues contained a handful of grainy, black and white images to help identify an issue. The new GJ Argentina Catalogue shows just how […]

2nd January 2019Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment4

Collect Brazil? You probably need this…

Brazil catalogue cross reference book

Pre-internet, collectors tended to be far more reliant  – dependent even – on the catalogue that was written in their own language. Buying and selling was limited to the relationships […]

18th August 2018Categories Analysis, PublicationsLeave a Comment2

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