#Press Release
Apex Public Auction 133 Post-Sale Press Release
The Apex Public Auction number 133 was held in gloriously sunny weather at the popular Lingfield Park Racecourse venue on Sunday July 27th, with 125 buyers in the room competing with several 100 'book' bidders for the 1150 lots going under the hammer. The sale exceeded expectations with highly gratifying realisations in excess of £420,000 and relatively few lots remaining unsold [in fact of the f
Apex Public Auction 130: Rare Singles Steal the Show
1150 lots of philatelic material, including some of the rarest single items ever offered by Apex Philatleics, will go under the hammer on Sunday 16th March, at Lingfield Park Racecourse, UK. Of particular interest, three 1915 Tanganyika 'Mafia Island' handstamped 1r, 2r and 3r mint issues are some of the scarcest stamps to be found in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Mafia Island is part of the Tanz
New Zealand Post celebrates Matariki 2013 – with stamps, coins and public celebrations
New Zealand Post is pulling out the stops to celebrate Matariki (the Māori New Year) - with a special stamp and coin issue and some major public events in Auckland and Wellington. Matariki celebrates the return to the skies of the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades – with Matariki being the Māori name for the brightest star in that group. Matariki is widely acknowledged to signal a change of
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StampNews.com launches new design
Dear followers! Please accept our sincere apologies for not being able to issue stamp news regularly and without delay during the last several weeks. All this time we've been preparing the transfer to a new platform with an absolutely new site design. Finally, today we officially announce the launch of our new site, which, in our humble opinion, became more user-friendly, more interactive and meet
South African Post Office launches new stamps at Festival
As part of a new partnership with the National Arts Festival, the South African Post Office will launch a new series of postage stamps in Grahamstown. These stamps will feature indigenous African musical instruments, and will be launched at the National Arts Festival on 3 July 2011. The South African Post Office will also design a special canceller stamp bearing the logo of the Festival. The partn
New postage stamps for World Design Helsinki 2012
The hugely popular Finnish Future City design competition has been decided, and eight proposals have been selected from the 1,422 entries submitted for the competition to be published as World Design Helsinki 2012 postage stamps in January next year. In the competition organized on the Internet, the public voted for their favourites with a total of 15,038 votes. The winning stamps were chosen base
Top 10 most touching stamps 2010
In the beginning of spring StampNews presents its new ranking – Top 10 most touching stamps 2010. This is the list of stamps having the most touching design by the opinion of the portal’s editorial board. Last year quite a lot of stamps worthy of entering this list have been issued, in part due to the theme of 2010 EUROPA stamps "Children’s books". StampNews had a really difficult choice to make,
London Debut to Mark 100th Auction
Apex Philatelic Auctions (www.apexstamps.com) will be holding their Centenary auction on the 14th May 2010, to coincide with the year's International Stamp Exhibition taking place in London - the world's philatelic capital. The auction will feature around 500 lots of high quality world stamps with emphasis on British and Colonial. The International Stamp Exhibition will open on the 6th May, the an
Top 10 most touching postage stamps of 2008
FindYourStampsValue.com continues to strike the balance of the year 2008. Here is a very special rating. Hope our little philatelists will appreciate it. 'Mr. Men and Little Miss' Stamps In May 2008, Guernsey issued six stamps honoring the characters in the "Mr. Men and Little Miss" children's books and television series. Christmas stamp from Finland This touching stamp was issued in No
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