Norvic Philatelics Blog This week's stamp news


Norvic Philatelics Blog More new stamp printings look out for shortterm changes

UPDATE 1 March. Royal Mail have confirmed in the March Philatelic Bulletin that the above stamps will be issued on 4 April, along with international airmail stamps in values £1.85, £2.55, £3.25 and £4.20. These are the existing rates, apart from the £1.85 which is an increase from £1.70.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Country definitives by Cartor...... and Wales 1st

Norvic Philatelics Blog Monday 8 January 2024 Post and Go News 2024 This post and its comments will hold all news on Post and Go stamps, machines, and PO SSKs. For details of new Post and Go stamps issued by the postal authorities in Guernsey and Jersey I recommend WhiteKnight's Commonwealth Stamp Opinion.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Diamond Jubilee Machin & Wilding from Prestige Stamp Book

Norvic Philatelics: Modern British Postal History - Our occasional GB postal history notes and one on which I would like to be much more active. 31p purple: News for definitive collectors - Andrew Hill on Machins. Scandinavian Stamps - Peter's sporadic musings on Scandinavia (last updated 6/21) Musings of a letter writer, stamp user.


Norvic Philatelics Blog New York 2016 FIP International Philatelic Exhibition Post and Go

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Norvic Philatelics Blog More Language Variants on PO/RM material

UPDATE. 9 entries now received. Quite a lot of commonality among the predictions. Of the 15 subjects in the outline programme I received today Christmas is a given, and four other subjects have been identified. UPDATE - with over 20 entries received and much speculation about January's Music Giants issue, which Royal Mail standing order.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Machin Definitive 40th Anniversary first day covers

Norvic Philatelics Blog Tuesday 24 October 2023 Christmas 2023 - Set of 5 and MS - 2 November 2023 Royal Mail's Christmas issue this year is reduced to only five stamps and retail booklets, plus the unnecessary miniature and generic sheets.


Norvic Philatelics Blog This week's stamp news

The surcharge for using a non-barcoded stamp started at £1.10 (which was the then 1 st class postage rate) but in October a new range of charges was introduced pushing this charge up to £2.50 (the previous rate for unpaid letters), with the rate for using a counterfeit stamp or no postage at all rising from £2.50 to £5 (£7 for small.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Norvic Checklist of Security Machin Definitives v 2.5.3 30 June 2021

Some of Great Britain Royal Mail's first-class River Wildlife stamps were printed with one phosphor band instead of two. Royal Mail withdrew the stamps from sale shortly after the July 13 issue date, but it now has a corrected version available.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Tudor Street's three MA13 stamps

Friday 5 January 2024 2432. 🇬🇧🇬🇮 Royal Mail And Gibraltar New Issue Programmes; Spice Girls Issue. Stamp programmes for 2024 - 🇬🇧 Royal Mail - As reported by Ian Billings' Norvic Philatelic Blog - 11 January - Music Giants (IX), The Spice Girls (see below) 1 February - The weather, 170th anniversary of the Meteorological Office


Norvic Philatelics Blog Change to booklet backing paper.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Ultra-modern Postal History: the transition period 2023 onwards The first definitive (NVI and £2.20) stamps bearing the likeness of King Charles III were issued on 4 April 2023 and are detailed in our ' new stamps ' blog.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Machin Definitives from Star Wars Prestige Stamp Book

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Norvic Philatelics Blog All quiet on Machin definitive stamps until next month

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Norvic Philatelics Blog New York 2016 FIP International Philatelic Exhibition Post and Go

UPDATE 3 March. A new £2.20 stamp has been announced for the new All-World airmail rate for letters - see Tariff. Definitive £2.20 stamp for All-World airmail letters to 100g, to be issued 4 April 2023. It does seem rather odd that this stamp will be issued the day AFTER the rate comes into effect. Posted by Ian - Norvic at 09:58.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Spot the difference Potter booklet brings some magic

Welcome to our shop which lists some of our stocks of stamps, first day covers, postal history and postcards from all over the world. More will be added at any time. Due to Royal Mail invalidating old-style definitives we are making separate sales lists of these and announcing them on the blog (see below).


Norvic Philatelics Blog Additions to our shop today

UPDATE 1 March. Royal Mail have confirmed in the March Philatelic Bulletin that the above stamps will be issued on 4 April, along with international airmail stamps in values £1.85, £2.55, £3.25 and £4.20. These are the existing rates, apart from the £1.85 which is an increase from £1.70. I could mock-up some barcoded versions of these as.


Norvic Philatelics Blog Gibbons' new Concise catalogue means some renumbering for booklets

stock (high to low) sku (a-z) sku (z-a) 2936C.9 1st red MCIL M15L ex mixed boo.. £1.30. 2913.8 2nd Large M18L MAIL 2018 Walsal.. £1.25.