Thanks for the replies. Up until now we have managed by holding the stamp at an angle to the light to see if it had phosphor bands or not. That seemed to suffice as far as I was concerned. As we look closer at post '71 stamps it appears that we need to be able to determine The phosphor’s colour and ...

Thank you for the kind welcome... Robin, Sort out is the name of the game with my late father's collection. The other word that springs to mind is 'organise' and as I type this another word that is relevant is 'dispose' the amount of duplication is incredible... My dad enjoyed 'collecting' vast quan...

Up until now our collecting has always been focused around pre-decimal stamps. Due to a sequence of recent events, out collection has been catapulted way past 15th February 1971. We are now trying to get to grips with the decimal Machins and feel that it may be time to invest in a UV lamp (or two?) ...

Hello! My name is Ralph and along with my wife, Sue we have recently joined the Society. I started collecting stamps as a schoolboy when I was given a small World stamp album as a Christmas gift. After setting out with the intention of collecting every stamp ever issued, I soon realised that my smal...