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Stamp Magazine Blog: Hector Berlioz
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. November 22, 2013. Last week you found me slightly sidestepped because of Leonardo da Vinci. But the reason why I had bumped into him in the first place, was that I was on the hunt for Decaris’ stamps depicting Berlioz’ Damnation of Faust. A 1969 stamp set from Monaco. Mephistopheles showing Faust the Goof Life. The set featured in last month’s Stamp Magazine. And was described as being Decaris’ tour de force. Minuet of the Goblins.
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Stamp Magazine Blog: April 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. April 26, 2013. Would it be fair to say that the art of stamp engraving is most obvious in portrait stamps? Not being an expert at all, it seems to me that to portray a human being in engraved lines must be about the hardest thing to do. Harder than engraving views or architecture or the like. Is it because one has to breathe life into the subject? It’s a hard, angular portrait, but Kipperman shows he can also do a softer engr...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: February 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. February 22, 2013. This week's new Jane Austen stamps prompted me to see if I could find some of my favourite female authors on stamps. I was bitterly disappointed! Why is there no Iris Murdoch stamp, either here in Britain or in Ireland? And, even worse, probably, why hasn't France honoured Simone de Beauvoir yet? Let me introduce you to Baroness Bertha von Suttner! Lay down your arms! Which was praised by the likes of Leo Tolstoy&...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: October 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. October 25, 2013. As you may have gathered by now, I’m not always the quickest when it comes to jumping on new philatelic bandwagons. I’m more like a “What do I want to keep that first Smilers sheet for” kinda guy. It is therefore quite amazing that I did manage to hold on to the first ever Machin and Commemorative mixed booklet (the submarines, remember? Labels were a good example and so are the Universal Mail stamps. I can’t...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: July 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. July 26, 2013. I’m not the best of thematic collectors, I appreciate that, and I have very much a love/hate relationship with it. I find that it is sometimes incredibly difficult to match philatelic items with what I have in my mind, with how I want my story to develop. Do others tweak the story to match their philatelic items? That would be much easier, I suppose, but there’s no way I can do that with my Peacemaking collection.
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Stamp Magazine Blog: The Last One
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. December 27, 2013. Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Some of you may have already seen the notice on the website’s forum, but this is the end of the line as far as the website’s blog is concerned. So let me first of all thank everyone at Stamp Magazine for having given me the opportunity to write this blog for two years. It’s been a great ride and I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly. I also would like to thank you, my faithful readers! I won&...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: November 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. November 29, 2013. I was clearing out a shelf from my stamp cupboard the other day and came across a few postal items I had completely forgotten about! Then one day, with a slightly secretive look on her face, she handed me this brown envelope, saying she wasn’t sure whether she was allowed to do so, but would I be interested in all these old A4 post office stamp posters? I love the one of the 1998 stamp issues programme. Look a...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: Taiwanese Owls
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. December 13, 2013. My Christmas present flew in early this year. In fact, it was early November when I got it! On our annual trip to Holland I happened to pass my stamp shop of old in The Hague, and although I didn’t really plan to get anything, I suddenly noticed these Taiwanese owls in the window. I remembered they were shown on our website’s forum. So I had to do some more research myself. And of course got hopelessly stuck&#...
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Stamp Magazine Blog: March 2013
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Welcome to Stamp Magazine's blog, updated by Adrian Keppel every Friday. March 29, 2013. Had you ever heard of British Postnotes? I must admit I hadn’t but a good friend of mine was involved in one of the advertising campaigns involving them. The postnotes were introduced by the Post Office in 1982. They are basically a modern-day version of the old-fashioned lettercard. Now, at the time, my friend was working for the Milk Marketing Board (MMB) and they were. Head A (left) and Head B (right). The campaig...
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