June 2015

Contents to Volume 46, Number 1

Inverted Jenny makes six-figures at Siegel and the Royal baby stamp boom begins.

More reports from the nation’s Philatelic Societies.

Forthcoming fairs and auctions.

News of recent auction results.

John Holman offers more collecting ideas for new and seasoned collectors.

Details of Royal Mail’s latest issues marking the centenary of World War I and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

Edward Klempka explores the short history of the much-derided, but now much-desired, Mulready stationery.

160 years after they were introduced, Robert B Galland describes the reasons for, and the development of, Britain’s first surface-printed issues.

The latest supplement to the GB Specialised Catalogue.

In his final article on the exhibitions of London, Derek Connell turns his attention to Stamp Show 2000 and the vast range of philatelic memorabilia produced for it.

The short-lived Post & Go stamps with inscriptions are proving to be a big hit with collectors. John Deering provides a guide to the issues produced so far.

John Gray returns to GSM to bring us up-to-date with the variants of self-adhesive stamps found only in GB Smilers sheets.

In the first part of his concluding article on Ghana’s 1988 provisional issues, Nicolas Pertwee discusses the uses and varieties of the ‘C20’ overprint on the ‘Mounted Warrior’ design.

John Hillson talks us through the recess printing method used to create the Canadian ‘Queens’—and their varieties

A long-forgotten manuscript by his grandfather provided Simon Catling with an insight into the contentious suppression of the Cambridge College Messenger Stamps.

The history of the College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge, one of the oldest and most important of the privately run posts, is traced by Chris Harman.

Peter van Gelder returns to GSM with another medley of British and Commonwealth postal stationery.

Geir Sør-Reime presents the first of a three-part alphabetical listing of foreign issues.

Len Stanway demystifies the subtle differences found between Singapore’s MyStamps and their regular-issued counterparts.

Giorgio Migliavacca examines the short-lived stamps of the Provisional Government of Tuscany.

Former GSM Editor John Holman looks back at the July 1914 issue—the last before production was suspended by World War I.

Stamps to look out for from Samoa.

Your chance to win a £50 Stanley Gibbons voucher.

A summary of recent and forthcoming issues.

Alison Boyd investigates the stories behind some of the latest stamp issues from around the world.

Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man celebrate the Magna Carta, Penny Black and maritime history.

More fun from the Hedley Adams Mobbs collection.

Hugh Jefferies offers more comments from the catalogue editor’s chair.

A 18-page update to the Stanley Gibbons catalogue.