XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

So far I have reviewed two magazines, Stamp Collector and The Cinderella Philatelist. This week I'm looking at a very different magazine, The New Puffin Journal. You may not have heard about it unless you are interested in Lundy, an island in the Bristol Channel that issues its own stamps. The New Puffin Journal is published by the Lundy Collectors' Club. It is a much smaller magazine that the others I've mentioned and I think it's important to say that it's not a stamp magaz

I recently reviewed the World Cup issue from Monaco, which I thought was quite good. I'm taking a look at some other World Cup stamps today, and the first is from Curaçao. Unlike Monaco, Curaçao actually has a team playing at this World Cup. In fact, it is the very first time they have ever qualified for the World Cup finals and Curaçao is the smallest country ever to qualify. So all in all that's a pretty great achievement and it's no surprise that the country is proud of th

It's been four weeks since Royal Mail's last stamps (100 Years since the Birth of Queen Elizabeth II) so surely there must be another issue soon? Of course there will be - from Thursday you will be able to buy this set of castles from your local post office. Actually, you probably won't, but you get the point. When I read the Royal Mail stamp calendar for 2026 I wasn't too excited about castles. That isn't because I'm not interested in castles because I really am and I have