Previous Issues

December 2015

Inside this month’s packed GSM, Don Davies looks at some of the more unusual methods used by early letter senders to ensure mail reached its…

November 2015

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, Edward Klempka explores the events surrounding the introduction of the Penny Black, its early usages and eventual replacement…

October 2015

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, in the first of a series of articles on the franking system of Great Britain from 1652 to 1840,…

September 2015

Included in this month’s GSM, John Holman reveals more of the obligatory tax stamps of Central America and recalls Britain’s controversial 1965 set issued to…

August 2015

In the August issue of GSM, Don Davies reveals some curious covers that offer a new ‘angle’ on British postal history and John Deering dissects…

July 2015

Inside this month’s packed GSM, Noel Davenhill charts examples of maps on stamps issued by Britain’s former colonies, dependencies and protectorates and using a variety…

June 2015

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, Giorgio Migliavacca examines the short-lived stamps of the Provisional Government of Tuscany and 160 years after they were…

May 2015

In the May issue of GSM, John Holman reports on Downstream Access mail, tourist stamps, Christmas charity mail, railway letter and island stamps and in…

April 2015

Included in this month’s GSM, Anthony Smith discusses the early postal history of Nauru with a particular focus on the British King George V overprinted…

March 2015

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Albert-Friedrich Gruene tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Deception Island’s rich postal history and in…

February 2015

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, John Moody explains how Germany’s charity stamps were ‘stolen’ by the Nazi Party to help support Hitler’s war…

January 2015

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Peter Ford FRPSL traces the development of Tobago’s postal history. With its locally produced bisects and surcharges, plus a…