XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

In the next few weeks I will be reviewing some stamp magazines. Although Stamp Magazine was discontinued last year there are still a few out there and I kick things off with a look at Stamp Collector. The edition I am looking at is June 2026. The first thing to say is that there is a lot in this. And I mean a lot. There is even a separate Coin Collector section. There are a lot of different sections in this magazine, which is very well organised. I think it makes sense to go

This new stamp from Monaco looks forward to the FIFA World Cup Finals. There has already been a lot of controversy about this World Cup and that is before it has even started! However, this stamp keeps things simple and is clearly just celebrating a global football event that is being staged in three countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States. The designers have thought the best thing is not to make things too complicated. So there are no FIFA logos or even the name of

This is a very interesting new issue from Romania that I liked the look of straight away. The set is called "Curiosities of Wildlife" and it focuses on "situations in which the young of certain animals differ significantly in coloration from the adults." Well, that is unusual! Stamps often show similar types of animals, or animals from particular areas. They don't often use differences as a theme. The animals (and their young) are the silvered langur, the king penguin, the s