Previous Issues

June 2017

In the June issue of GSM, as the Machin reaches its 50th year of service as the face of British definitives, Douglas Muir RDP tells…

May 2017

Inside this month’s packed GSM, Michael Round presents the philatelic fallout from a less well-known victim of hyperinflation and as Christer Brunstrom explains, most issues…

April 2017

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, Geir Sor-Reime’s continues his annual survey of stamp booklets with a rundown of 2015-16 issues from foreign postal…

March 2017

In the March issue of GSM, George Rab takes a look at ‘a right royal struggle’ which led to the Bahawalpur state’s first stamp issues…

February 2017

Included in this month’s GSM, almost a century after Iraq’s first stamps, Freddy Khalastchy FRPSL tells their history and reveals a number of rare and…

January 2017

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Michael Round explains how, with an issuing period of about ten years, the French Territory of Afars and Issas…

December 2016

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Colin Hoffman examines the first stamps to bear the name ‘Rhodesia’. Although introduced for purely philatelic reasons, this overprinted…

November 2016

Included in another eclectic mix of articles, Jim Etherington reveals how the postal history of the BEF gives a unique perspective on the fate of…

October 2016

Inside this month’s packed GSM, Christer Brunstrom reveals how, if you are willing to forgo the early rarities, a good representative collection of the Feudatory…

September 2016

In the September issue of GSM, John Holman takes a look at the stamps of the Turks and Caicos Islands in New Collector and Michael…

August 2016

Inside this month’s issue of GSM, Otto Peetoom focuses on more of the commemorative issues of Botswana released since independence and Richard Garcia puts forward…

July 2016

Included in this month’s GSM, the popular French Congo pictorials of 1900 have been widely studied and written about – however, as Michael Round reveals,…