Stamp Collector

Finding Expensive Stamps is a Function of Money But, Try Finding the Inexpensive Ones …

but some of the stamps they search for were produced in very small numbers … often down to a few thousands or less of high values. For this reason, I have often wondered why Stanley Gibbons catalogue values for –particularly those from the British Empire late QV and Kings ? £200+/catalogue value for an

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