30th March 2025
Since our last update, a vast range of new items have been added to most of our colonies. The ones that spring to mind in particular are: Andorra, Alaouites, Alexandretta, Afars & Issas, Niger, Mauritania, Somali Coast, Saar, Obock, French Indian Settlements, French Guiana and French Equatorial Africa. A number of unusual items came with these collections and they will be on our next list of "Extraneous Stamps" both on the website and in our May Issue 3 Magazine/stocklist.
We have re-vamped the website’s Space-fillers and Special stamps listings into one now which will be mirrored in our next publication. Don’t forget the Spring Sale 10% discount applies to anything purchased from us including the "Extraneous Items", right up to the end of April.
Talking of Spring the weather at last seems to have cheered up with primroses and cowslips everywhere. Mind you, I did venture out to do a little gardening earlier this week but after 10 minutes decided it was still much too cold and quickly returned to my warm office. Perhaps next month...
Most philatelists have a penchant for world Geography and the current world events will be as shocking to most of you as they are to me. Natural events such as floods, fires and earthquakes are bad enough to see on newscasts, yet the man-made ones of global wars stemming from ethnic divisions and greed seem to know no bounds. We can only hope that, at some stage in the future, the world’s people can rid themselves of their maniacal leaders and get back to the peace that most of us have enjoyed for the last 75 years or so.
Enough of such ponderings, enjoy the long evenings of Spring and Summer and just find a little time now and then to attend to our stamps.
Terry Garcia.
Next update: 20th April 2025
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