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The Collector | John Shaw | Paraguay

1922 3 pesos unissued revolutionary stamp

In the first of a new series, Latin America collectors share an insight into their passion for Central and South American stamps. Here, John Shaw MBE FRPSL discusses – amongst […]

10th December 2018Categories People, The CollectorLeave a Comment0

A visit to the Edificio Correos in San José

I visited Costa Rica last week and took some time out to take a look around the Edificio Correos in the heart of San José. In a country not known […]

1st November 2018Categories Post OfficesLeave a Comment0

Philatelic Societies – a review

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I’ve recently updated the Resources pages. Part of this exercise was to revisit links to philatelic societies and investigate others that I wasn’t so familiar with. In reviewing so many […]

14th October 2018Categories General Philately, Philatelic SocietiesLeave a Comment6

Tasty Brazil, Bolivia and Chile at Gartner

1881 Brazil 100 Reis Proof Sheet

Watching the postman struggle to our door the other morning could only mean one thing: it was time for another Gartner auction. Of all the international auction houses, Gartner probably […]

2nd October 2018Categories AuctionsLeave a Comment0

Which country has the world’s worst postal service?

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Which countries should you avoid shipping to? Let’s say you put a few items up for auction on eBay and one lucky winner has an address in Haiti. Would you […]

19th September 2018Categories Analysis, General PhilatelyLeave a Comment14

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

Hackmey’s Chile to be sold

Chile Colon block of 12

Conveniently following on from my plug for SOFICH a few weeks ago, comes the news that Joseph Hackmey is to part with his Chile collection. This is set to be […]

20th July 2018Categories AuctionsLeave a Comment0

SOFICH, so good

SOFICH Chile catalogue

I recently acquired a very nice collection of pre-1940 Chile that had been collected by SOFICH and cross-referenced by Scott. It clearly shows just how much room for expansion there […]

4th April 2018Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment0

Part 20, Part 20, wherefore art thou Part 20…?

Stanley Gibbons' Latin American catalogues have not been published since 2007/8

It is now ten years since Stanley Gibbons printed the fourth and current edition of their ‘Part 20’ South America stamp catalogue. And the separate ‘Part 15’ that covers Central […]

15th February 2018Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment2

Bookshelf Essentials Part II – The Central American Newsletter

Central American Newsletter

Although The Mainsheet covered all twenty republics, its focus was primarily on South America. In 1980, under the editorship of Bernard Davies, The Central American Newsletter was launched as a […]

14th December 2017Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment7

Bookshelf Essentials – The Mainsheet

The Mainsheet

If there is one thing philatelists are not short of it is reading material. Decades of book publishing has produced a wealth of literature on every subject imaginable and each […]

13th December 2017Categories PublicationsLeave a Comment2

Colombian air post rarities under the hammer

Colombia SCADTA stamp

One of the most iconic and distinctive series of stamps in Latin American philately are the nine colourful labels used by CCNA (Compania Colombiana de Navegacion Aerea) in 1920. These […]

21st November 2017Categories AuctionsLeave a Comment0

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