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The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, 1840-1901 - An introduction and guide to the postage stamps of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria
Stamps Exchange On-Line - Mixtures with an Irish bias but includes world stamps. Accepts postal orders.
Stamp collecting site dedicated to promote the hobby - Stamp collecting site dedicated to promote stamp collecting plenty of information and links for the beginner and advanced philatelist
Stamps nThings collectables - Small shop in Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK, which offers mail order worldwide on a number of collectable items, including stamps, postcards, antiques and hobby items.
Scotstamps - Dealers of Great Britain and British Commonwealth single stamps and sets. Philatelic library, free notice board and stamp selling service.
Phil-Index - Dealers in Stamps of the French Colonies
Swanland Priory Philatelics - Online catalogue of GB First Day Covers
British Victorian Stamps - Site specialising in the collection of mostly mint Victorian blocks 1840-1883, includes penny black and rainbow trials (24 images).
Stamp and Coin accessories from Prinz Publications - Wide range of stamp and coin accessories for the collector. Agents for full Prinz, Lindner, Kabe, Domfil and Michel products.
Civil Service Philatelic Society - The web site for the Civil Service Philatelic Society.
Arthur Ryan & Co GB - Complete listing of all Great Britain issues from 1840 to date with new issues sold at face value and twice monthly priate treaty list for the more advanced collector.
Benham eChannel - Independent UK manufacturer of commemorative, themed, coins, medals, autographed and first day covers. Established some 30 years ago, we are also dealers in rare and unusual British covers.
Phil Stamp Covers - Designers and producers of cartoon first day covers featuring our very own 'Phil Stamp'. The illustrations are drawn by the cartoonist J. Edward Oliver, whose work has regularly appeared in'Buster' comic.
The King George VI Collectors Society - The aim of the Society is to bring together all those interested in the stamps of the reign of King George VI.
A2Z Stamps - An informatative site for new and established collectors of world stamps. Well priced stamps both mint and used and philatelic information.
Stamps 4 Collectors - Online Auction - UK Based online stamp auction. All countries and areas listed.
All World Stamps - Stamps for Sale - Postage stamps of the World for sale including UK and Commonwealth stamps, world stamps and miscellaneous items, with easy to select and order facilities, search engine, free list downloads and useful links.
Great Britain Philatelic Society - For specialist collectors of GB stamps, philately and Postal History. World-wide membership.
Gibbons Stamp Monthly - Online version of the world's number one stamp magazine. Features all the latest philatelic news, articles, events diary and discussion forums.
Derek's Stamp and Coin Exchange - Site to exchange stamps and coins of G.Britain and Commonwealth
Colin's GB Stamps - Fully illustrated online GB reference with price guide. Used stamps for sale at sensible prices. PayPal. Scans emailed to you before you buy.
Coinote Services - Coin and Banknote dealers and stamp, Insurance valuations and accessories for collectors.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Stamps When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Stamps You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Stamps Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Stamps Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Stamps Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Stamps While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Stamps The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Stamps Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Stamps Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Stamps Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Stamps It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Stamps A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Stamps Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Stamps The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Stamps Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Stamps Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Stamps "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Stamps Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Stamps "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Stamps A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Stamps I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Stamps
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