The Punk Philatelist

Stamp collecting as pop culture. Not here so much these days. Find my website for latest updates!

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Postage stamps are pop culture

This Tumblr has grow up and graduated to its own website. Come on over!

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COVID-19 a shot in the arm for stamp collecting

Well, if you’d asked me a few months back what was needed to give stamp collecting a kick up the backside, my first answer would probably not have been “a global supervirus pandemic.” But it sure f…

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Answers to all the questions you hadn’t asked: where has Punk been lately? Why does Portugal’s Christmas stamp outshine everyone else’s? How did a pair of alpacas wind up in a nat…

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New Zealand wins the Battle of Rock

Legends of rock have been featured on plenty of stamps in recent years, but New Zealand has just trolled us all

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Iceland’s stamps are on the rocks

Some breaking news out of Iceland last week has shocked the placid world of stamp collecting and made this puffin sad.

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Choo the fat with ‘Mainline Railway Stamps’

Colourful, readable and full of surprises, Howard Piltz’s latest book about trains on stamps avoids the potential pitfalls you might expect from a book about trains on stamps

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A chance find at an auction has Punk suddenly rethinking her collecting strategy

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It’s getting steamy in here

Which railroad issue has Punk getting steamy? Meanwhile, another recent release is totally off the wall…

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That ’70s Showstopper

Jersey has released its sequel to last year’s 1960s Popular Culture stamps. Welcome to the 1970s!

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Circuit books: WTF?

In a bid to explain philately things and stuff, Punk Philatelist takes you into the world of the circuit book. WTF?

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Fondue is big this year

So I look away for one moment and suddenly everyone is putting fondue on their stamps.

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The 12 Stamps of Christmas

As mail revenues continue to plummet, Christmas offers one last chance to hear the bells jingling on their cash registers. So which countries brought their festive A-game in 2018?

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There’s a new Punk Philatelist, but will she be your Val Kilmer or your Christian Bale?

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A new year, a new Punk. Get drinking.

It’s a farewell of sorts from the Punk Philatelist. She’s outta here. …Or is she?

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Stamp of the day: sunnie side up!

Sometimes you can see a stamp dozens of times without fully appreciating its majesty. And then, for some reason, you happen to notice it in a certain light, or at a certain magnification, or across…

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Hello, new friends!

Just a quick note to say thank you to the pals who have shared some of my older posts around the internet this week, and a warm hello to any new eyeballs. I’m a bit quiet right now due to day job commitments, but I’m taking the opportunity to tweak a few things in the back end to make this a bigger and better site.

We’ve re-established in the last few days that I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, but…

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Dragons are afoot as StampShow 2018 seeks to engage a new generation