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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Molokai, post: 45148, member: 2441&quot;]This was/is a British publication, similar to the U.S. <i>Stamps Weekly</i> but, obviously, published monthly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a not quite complete run from 1946-1957. In 1946 it began incorporating the World Stamp Digest magazine. The November 1957 issue in front of me here is Volume 24, No. 274. An archive shows listing up to 1963, but there is a current Brit publication, Stamp Magazine which appears to be the successor of this periodical. </p><p><br /></p><p>The magazine itself is slightly oversized. It is printed on newspaper stock, similar to <i>Stamps Weekly</i>. The length of issues varies quite a bit, unlike <i>Stamps Weekly</i>. November 1957 is a tasty 46 pages, with the inside covers also utilized.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first twelve pages are advertisements. Then we get to columns and articles. Topics, of course, lean towards GB and territories, but there is worldwide coverage. The first difference I noticed from <i>Stamps Weekly</i> is the articles tend to be longer and quite a bit more specialized and ‘meaty.’ There is not as much two-column inch filler. Many, many articles for the specialist probably with information available nowhere else!</p><p><br /></p><p>I will browse a handful of issues and note of interest, beginning with a cruise through November 1957 back when I was watching the Howdy Doody show with Buffalo Bob:</p><p><br /></p><p>The cover of Nov 1957 features a Seychelles Provisional. Seychelles seemed to be at that time a hot area for British collectors. A full-page ad for Dublin Stamp Auctions. Prices ranged from £2 to £30 ‘valuation’ – for £30 was a collection of South Africa 1910-52 with ‘most issues well represented. For £3 Roumania 1862-39.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first article in the November 1957 issue is a regular feature at the time, <i>Front Page News</i>, events and new issues. Next <i>Canada’s Registration Stamps</i>, <i>The Royal Visits of Queen Elizabeth II</i>, <i>Great Britain Stand-Ins </i>on early date stamps. <i>Foreign Informant</i> is about stamps and philatelic happenings in other countries. Follows, a short article on <i>The Private Locals of Shuna</i>. There are many articles on such interesting specialities. <i>New Issue Guide</i> is well illustrated, runs several pages and appears complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another seven pages of advertisements then ‘Sagesse’ the stamp investment critic – not dissimilar to a feature in <i>Stamps Weekly</i>, then <i>Latest Colonial &amp; Dominion Releases</i>, more pages of advertisements, <i>Brunswick</i> a well-written two-pages on their stamps. The issue concludes with several more pages of advertisements.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cruising through 1957 for more specialty articles<i>: Luxemburg’s Child Welfare Stamps, Turkish Libya</i>, a multipart series on the <i>Albanian Tangle</i> (what a tortured philatelic history that country has!), <i>The 1/2d Springbok of South Africa, Provisionals of British Honduras, How Jean de Sperati came to reproduce stamps </i>with several pictures of him, including a baby picture! Also<i>,&nbsp; Van Diemen’s Land ‘Natives’, The Story of ‘Dr. Magnus’ inventor of the perforation gauge, Czechoslovakia: The 1926-1926 Pictorial Issues, Definitive Stamps of St. Christopher, Stamps of Salonika, 1916 </i>and so on and on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhere out there are collectors who would love to have the information in these old and mostly forgotten articles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I very much enjoy reading such articles although it is frustrating in the sense I cannot dig deeper. So many paths in philately.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]7611[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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