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An essential stamp collecting accessory and one of our bestselling products, the Stanley Gibbons Colour Key is the best guide to philatelic colours and shades available.

Designed with 200 colours featured on punched colour panels and supplied in a plastic case, the Stanley Gibbons Colour Key allows collectors to quickly and easily identify the colour and shades of their stamps.

Discover the hidden rarities in your collection with this bestselling handheld tool. The Stanley Gibbons Detectamark can detect watermarks on all Great Britain stamps and provides clean, safe and effective watermark detection without the use of chemicals and also helps detect minor damage such as thins, tears and repairs. It is constructed from a robust metal alloy and can be used with batteries or an adapter. The power adapter is included FREE of charge.

With the highest capacity in our range, The peg fitting Devon albums are a strong and secure, cost effective option suitable for hingeless mounts. Supplied with 75 x 135gsm off white leaves. Leaf dimensions: 261 x 247mm. Recommended maximum capacity: 175 leaves.

The most popular First Day Cover album in our range, with a four ring fitting, supplied with 19x side opening double pocket leaves plus one single pocket leaf. Matching slipcase available. Recommended maximum capacity: 80 covers. Size of leaves: 275 x 240mm.

A popular double linen hinged stockbook with black pages, clear strips and frosted (glassine) interleaving. Pages/Sides: 32/64. Size: 308mm x 225mm. Strips per page: 10. Interleaving: Double.

The Great Britain Concise catalogue provides full colour price listings for all mint and used Great Britain stamp issues from the 1840 Penny Black to March 2011.

Included are definitives, commemoratives, regionals, postage dues, official stamps and booklets. Information for the more specialist collector includes priced listings of specimens, booklets, selected plate and cylinder varieties, errors (including missing colours, missing embossing, imperforates and phosphor omitted varieties) and inverted watermarks. More ‘popular’ fields covered include prices for gutter pairs, first day covers, presentation packs, yearbooks, ‘Smilers’ and much else.

Listings with prices for all GB stamps from 1840 to April 2011

Covers all GB Definitives, Commemoratives, First Day Covers, Presentation Packs, Booklets and Smilers

Also lists Errors, Varieties, Watermarks, Specimens, Officials and Regionals

Prices for used and unused stamps

360 pages with Full colour illustrations

Hundreds of price increases since last edition

There is a helpful introductory section, providing answers to many of the problems encountered by less experienced collectors, while additional help comes in the form of a full design index and diagrams showing the layout of Machin decimal booklet panes.

Prices are given for both unmounted and mounted mint stamps issued between 1887 and 1935 and on-cover prices are provided up to 1910. All are carefully checked each year to give an accurate easy-to-use guide to British stamps and their values, thus ensuring the continuing popularity of this widely used catalogue.

The brand new 6-volume Stamps of the World Catalogue lists stamps from every country with colour illustrations by date of issue with values provided for used and mint stamps and helpful introductory notes to guide the reader through.

This world-leading simplified catalogue provides the perfect reference material for dealers and collectors alike. It is easy-to-use with illustrated descriptions of all the world’s stamps with an accurate assessment of their current market values.

Why buy the set of 6 Stamps of the World catalogues?

Covers stamps of the entire world

Easy-to-use simplified listings

Illustrated in colour throughout with over 165,000 images

Thousands of stamps throughout Stamps of the World have been re-priced, both mint and used

Over 2250 new stamps and 700 images added since 2011 edition

Stamps are now listed in face value order for ease of use

Having problems with stamp identification? Read our extensive article packed with helpful information

Introductory information, including full contents listings and a complete guide to entries giving full detail of what every listing means

This edition includes over 2,250 newly listed stamps and over 165,000 colour images. Stamps of the World contains helpful information on the currencies appearing on stamps, descriptions of the designs, descriptions of surcharges and overprints, paper colour, stamp colours, se-tenant pairs, miniature sheets, and appendices with brief listings of stamps not fulfilling the conditions for full catalogue listing.

As well as postage stamps, the catalogue lists postage due stamps, parcel post stamps, official stamps, express and special delivery stamps, charity and compulsory tax stamps, newspaper and journal stamps, printer matter stamps, registration stamps, acknowledgement of receipt stamps, late fee and too late stamps, military post stamps, recorded message stamps and personal delivery stamps.

This highly anticipated price guide has been updated with a new, easy-to-use layout with clear illustrations throughout and helpful guidance making it easier to find exactly what you need and get the latest prices at your fingertips.

Listing the postmarks of Great Britain, this catalogue was produced in collaboration with the British Postmark Society and compiled by a number of leading experts in the field, including Editor Bill Pipe.

Get Collect British Postmarks and you will be able to identify any British postmark and determine a minimum value of a cover with a comprehensive number system widely used by postmark collectors.

Last published in 1997 this highly anticipated catalogue is available now.

This full colour catalogue provides a straightforward, simplified price listing of every mint and used British stamp from the Penny Black to Christmas 2011, with all commemorative designs illustrated for ease of use. Contains fully updated listings of the popular Post & Go Stamps and a fully priced list of Royal Mail Philatelic, Numismatic and Medallic covers.

Providing a straightforward simplified, richly illustrated listing of all British stamps

Hundreds of price changes since the previous edition, particularly to Queen Victoria

Over 270 pages in full colour

All commemorative designs illustrated

Oustanding value

Helpful introduction with advice on how to build a collection

‘A beautifully-presented and useful work, even to a specialist collector’ - The GB Journal

SG Great Britain 2011 H/L Supplement Number of pages: 18. For use with Davo blue two post binders.

Great Britain 2011 One Country supplement Update your album to include all 2011 issues and keep it as up-to-date as possible. For use with Stanley Gibbons maroon 4-ring binders. (OC06)