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This page provides a pre-selected list of articles aimed for semi-advanced and advanced stamp collectors. Most of these entries are well illustrated in-depth articles about specific stamp series. The articles vary from 250 to 2,000 words, and as a generalization they are considerably longer and complex than average blog entries.
- Stamps and collecting as therapy (pt.2): shame and vulnerability
- AOF 1947 definitive stamps - perforation mystery
- Latvian definitive postage stamps series of 2014/2016 "flowers"
- The Red and Black postage due stamps of Hungary
- Indore postage stamps of 1904/08 - engraved, litho, or both?
- Postal forgeries of modern Chinese stamps
- There is something terribly, terribly wrong with this postage stamp
- How to check if a stamp is a forgery or genuine, lesson 3 - North Korea 1967 postal forgery
- How to check if a stamp is a forgery or genuine, lesson 2 - a case of 1870 Spanish Allegory of Hispania
- How to check if a stamp is a forgery or genuine - a case study of Spanish 1854 Una Unza official stamp
- Forgeries of Spanish State 1936 definitive postage stamps
- How to identify litho from photogravure in postage stamp printing
- Cancellation forgeries on Finnish stamps
- Constant variations on 1970 Ecuadorian butterfly postage stamp
- Unlisted perforation varieties on Ecuador Timbre Escolar postage stamps
- War of the Pacific: overprints on Peruvian postage stamps
- Some observations about Serbian 1905 King Peter stamps and it's forgeries
- Interesting print varieties on 1988 Bulgarian postage stamps
- Common but generally unrecognized varieties on Polish definitive stamps
- Greek Landscapes postage stamp series of 1927 - separating different (re-engraved) prints from each other
- Greek tragedy in perf thirteen and one quarter (or why modern postage stamps are worth checking in detail)
- Unlisted perforation varieties on classic Montenegro postage stamps
- Montenegro 1896 Cetanje monestry postage stamp - genuine vs forgery by Fournier
- A modern Soviet stamp forgery
- The unidentifiable uglies - or how I deal with postage stamps of Indian states
- Indian Capital of Asoka Pillar official postage stamps
- Albanian Mirdita stamps
- Klaipeda postage stamp forgeries
- Difficulty of collecting Chinese stamps
- Definitive postage stamps of Japan: "Animal, plant and national treasure" series
- Microprinting varieties on Ukrainian definitive postage stamps
- Reprints of 1950s Romanian postage stamps
- Postage stamps of Caribbean (commonwealth) - part II
- Postage stamps of Anglophone Caribbean
- Forgeries (or reprints) of Ajman postage stamps
- Argentinian definitive stamp series of 1954/76 pt.4: other designs with double border frames
- Belgium 1882/1894 Parcel Post stamp forgeries
- Argentinian definitive stamp series of 1954/76 pt2: Jose de San Martin
- Argentinian definitive stamp series of 1954/76 pt1: introduction
- Romanian definitive postage stamp series of 1991 "Hotels, lodges and resorts of Romania"
- Ecuador 1916 stamp variety: wet printing or something else?
- History and culture of Central American nations on postage stamps
- A primer on organizing US Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908/1922
- Reprints or forgeries of Haitian postage stamps of 1904
- South African definitive postage stamps of 1926/1954 - meet the Springbok and other iconic designs
- Equatorial Guinea - a country with lost philatelic reputation
- Nigeria 1973 definitive postage stamps – pt. III
- Nigeria 1973 definitive postage stamps - pt. II
- Postage stamps of colonial Nigeria
- Definitive postage stamps of Italy: Italia Turrita aka. Syracuse coin
- Austria 1908 jubilee stamp series - perforation woes
- Portuguese definitive postage stamps series of 1972/74 "Landscapes and Monuments"
- Portuguese definitive postage stamp series of 1953/55 "Cavalinho"
- Środkowa Litwa - postage stamps of Central Lithuania
- 1955 General Franco stamp series of Spain
- Security features of Canadian high value mammal definitive postage stamps
- Brazilian definitive postage stamps of 1920-1941 "Série vovó"
- Hermes and Iris definitive postage stamp series of Greece
- Japanese hometown (Furusato / prefecture) postage stamps
- About early Japanese postmarks
- Czechoslovakian Masaryk postage stamps of 1925 -1927
- Czechoslovakian 1945/47 definitive postage stamp series: Portraits
- Persian mystery - 1906 Provisoire postage stamps with unlisted overprint
- USA "A partridge in a pear tree" Christmas postage stamp - EFO or color changeling?
- Hungarian 1986/1991 definitive postage stamp series: "Castles I"
- A quick review of Norma 2010, a specialized catalog of Finnish stamps
- 1877 3d red Samoa Times Express stamp
- Seebeck postage stamp reprints
- Five-year Plan definitive postage stamps of East Germany (DDR/GDR)
- Introduction to United States Precancels
- Classic Austrian / Austro-Hungarian postage stamps
Article categories
- Generally speaking about stamps, philately and collecting
- Learn the basics of stamp collecting - advice on how to get started
- How to preserve and build a stamp collection
- Philatelic knowledge base
- Stamp forgeries, philatelic fakes and other counterfeits
- Stamp collecting software (inventory programs and databases, online stamp catalogs etc)
- Straight talk about stamp values (both catalog and real world)
- Back of book stamps and other unusual stamp-like items
- EFO-stamps: errors, freaks and oddities on postage stamps
- Q & A - Ask anything about stamps and collecting
- Article index by country and topic
- SCB's Digital Perforation Gauge