Product Description
The November issue of Stamp Magazine, on sale from October 12, includes these great features:
Russian Revolution
The stamps and postal history surrounding the October Revolution of 1917 reveal a country divided, badly governed and thrown into turmoil, as the Bolsheviks emerged triumphant
Enschedé’s Machin trials
The postal archives reveal the story behind the first contracts for printing British definitive stamps to be placed with an overseas supplier, from 1989 to 1995
Pneumatic post of Paris
When a pressurised-air system was created to deliver the mail around the French capital faster, in the 19th century, it relied for many years on purpose-designed postal stationery
Commonwealth Classics
The inaugural definitive issue of Uganda, in 1898, saw local wildlife sharing the bill with Queen Victoria
Great Engravers
Our new series examining the most skilful of stamp artists starts at the very beginning, in 1840
GB Themes
We do like to be beside the seaside, and that has been well reflected on British stamps