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Richard Philatelist

@richphilatelist

Born in Dalian 🇨🇳, live in London 🇬🇧 Collect stamps since 2003. @YouTube channel 👇🏻

 London, England
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Joined April 2021
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On 5 January, China Post releases its annual Zodiac stamps. I joined the early-morning queue in my hometown to experience issue day for the first time. 🎥 Full story now live on my YouTube channel. youtu.be/rx2PFyygn3g?si=QPok… via @YouTube
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Lest We Forget.
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All @ptsandstampex members should read this, think, and act on it, especially the COUNCIL and dealers attending the recent #Stampex. xanthe.blog/post/review-of-s…
Review of Stampex 2026

Review of Stampex 2026

I attended Stampex last week (two days, Friday and Saturday) and it was my fifth time there. I have looked back over my review of last year's Stampex and I noticed that I ended by saying "I don't...

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Finally I’m here! The first King Charles III pillar box in the UK! 📍Cambourne
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Graham Beck@ExploringStampsOct 19
25 videos. One incredible stamp show! The Boston 2026 World Expo video collection is now complete! ▶️ Playlist link | youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Graham Beck@ExploringStampsOct 3
Nearly 20% of the UK's postboxes have now been mapped on piXPost! 🇬🇧📮 Photos, coordinates, Royal Cyphers and other details, all captured by the community. We're building quite the postbox database, one pin at a time.
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Thanks to Royal Mail, we are delighted to offer a special daily Stampex cancellation from the show this year. Celebrating 70 years of Stampex! Use our dedicated Stampex post box at the show to send your mail, letters, covers, postcards and cards and your items will be cancelled using the postmark for that day. Attend and mail items on all four days to collect all four cancellations! 28th to 31st October, Business Design Centre, Islington, London. FREE ENTRY.
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Graham Beck@ExploringStampsMay 13
Looking to purchase 10 Penny Blacks to give away at Boston as part of a series of fun videos for the community. They can be lower quality examples, but a variety of corner letters to make each one unique.Dealers, please let me know if we can work something out. Thx!
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976May 2
Did you know that @guernseystamps is issuing postbox-themed stamps? And they're dedicated to us??? It's a celebration of our 50th birthday! If you're a boxy philatelist, this might be for you! guernseystamps.com/new-issue…
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976Apr 30
New parcel postbox "glamour shots", Belfast, NI 📮600 to be installed across the UK 📮Up to medium size parcels can be posted 📮Coming soon to a city near you #postbox #belfast #design
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Xanthe's Stamp Magazine@XanthestampsApr 21
Today Royal Mail, Jersey and the Isle of Man issue new stamps to mark what would have been Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday. Here are my reviews of them, as well as stamps from New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Gibraltar and Djibouti. xanthe.blog/post/new-issues-…
New Issues: Centenary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II

New Issues: Centenary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II

On 21st April 1926, a baby was born. Her parents were the Duke and Duchess of York. No-one at the time expected that the Duke of York would become king, and definitely wouldn't have imagined that the...

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Graham Beck@ExploringStampsMar 31
Sharing some exciting news, @postcrossing is getting USA Stamps in May 🙌 AND they are triangles 😍 postcrossing.com/blog/2026/0…
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Casilicio de San Vicente Ferrer is a small stone canopy located on Puente del Real in Valencia. It was originally built in 1682 to shelter a statue of Saint Vincent Ferrer, one of Valencia’s most important patron saints.
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The first statues were installed on the bridge in 1603, but both the figures and their casilicios were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The current statue and canopy are 20th-century reconstructions created between 1943 and 1946.
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Today, the casilicio remains a notable element of Valencia’s historic river-crossing architecture and a symbolic reminder of the city’s religious heritage.
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#xtremephilately Casilicio de San Vicente Ferrer The stamp is part of the Valencia South Plan stamp series, issued on 2 Jan 1971. Catalogue numbers: Michel ES ZD5 Yvert et Tellier ES 1716 AFA number ES VAL6 Edifil ES VAL6 Unificato ES 1716
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#xtremephilately The stamp is part of the Valencia South Plan stamp series, issued on 1 Apr 1978. Catalogue numbers: Michel ES ZD8 Yvert et Tellier ES 2122 AFA number ES VAL9 Edifil ES VAL9 Unificato ES 2122
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Iglesia y Torre de Santa Catalina, built in the early 13th century on the site of a former mosque, was largely rebuilt in Baroque style after a 1548 fire. It features a 16th-century classicist portal and an imposing five-level hexagonal bell tower.
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#PostboxSaturday Hunting in Valencia 🇪🇸
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A 1948 Marathon Postcard That Led Me on a Journey Bought a £12 postcard at Stampex… and accidentally uncovered a 77-year-old marathon mystery from Košice, Czechoslovakia. 🏃📮 Full story in the video👇 youtu.be/dqjOgkOgDz0?si=GO3b… via @YouTube
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