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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.

A packet of 1000 Stanley Gibbons peelable folded stamp hinges designed to help collectors quickly and easily attach stamps to album pages. An essential purchase and ready to use.

Now including the latest stamp catalogue listings and prices for 2012

Stanley Gibbons’ My Collection is a revolutionary web-based tool developed by Stanley Gibbons to help you manage, view and value your collection online, giving you the ability to logically organise your stamps based upon the listings contained within the 2012 edition of the world-renowned Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World catalogue.

With My Collection, you can:

Browse Stanley Gibbons' online catalogue library and catalogue your entire collection 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Add extra details to all of the stamps in your collection including a personal description, a purchase price, alternative catalogue number and more importantly, you can upload your own images of the stamps in your collection.

Organise your collection in to online albums. Replicate your albums online or create additional ones, such as thematic albums.

View and print your collection with images and full descriptions. You can view your collection in its entirety or by distinct countries (and sub categories) or albums.

Summarise your collection, highlighting the value of your collection, sections thereof and individual albums.

Create a definitive spreadsheet of your collection, which could be used for insurance and valuation purposes.

Please note: your subscription will begin on the following working day after you have placed your order.

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.

The first edition of this specialised title to be published since 2008, this catalogue provides a detailed price listing of all Great Britain Queen Victoria stamps, British Postal Fiscals and Post Office Telegraph Stamps.

Each section includes comprehensive background information

Entire catalogue has been carefully revised and repirced in line with the current market for the first time in three years

Contains appendices covering Mulready Letter sheets with advertisements, protective overprints and underprints, specimen and cancelled overprints and stamps of the Circular Delivery Companies and Oxford and Cambridge Colleges

If you're a collector of 19th century Great Britain stamps, this is the catalogue for you.

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

'Easily accessible to beginners…an important book that should be in every public library in the UK' - Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle

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)

The bestselling 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 2012.

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 March 2012
• 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
• 400 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.

Detailed Contents

• Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Stamp Catalogue lists and prices all British stamps from 1840 to early 2012.
• Every different stamp design is illustrated in full colour.
• Listings include changes of watermark, perforation, shade and phosphor.
• First day covers, Royal Mail postage labels, Post Office (PHQ) Cards, presentation packs, booklets, postage dues, regionals, official stamps, postal fiscals and Post Office label sheets (Smilers) all listed and priced.
• Includes gutter pair prices.
• Gutter Pairs and “Traffic light” Gutter Pairs listed in mint sets.
• First Day Covers for Special Issues from 1924 and for King Edward VIII and King George VI definitives listed.
• Prestige Booklet panes and Regionals included for Queen Elizabeth II.
• All British Post Office special First Day of Issue postmarks are illustrated and priced on cover.
• Quick reference diagrams for listed Machin decimal booklet panes.
• Visible plate numbers listed for Victorian stamps.
• All basic stamps priced mint and used, with unmounted and mounted mint prices from 1887 to 1935 and on-cover prices from 1840 to 1911.
• Major errors and varieties including missing colours and perforation and watermark errors listed and priced.
• Helpful introductory section providing philatelic definitions and guidance for the collector.
• Booklet pane diagrams and indexes of commemorative designs and Machin definitives make this catalogue the perfect guide to British stamps and their values.
• Includes a Commemorative Design Index.
• Useful table of postage rates contemporary with NVIs.
• Inverted and sideways watermarks are listed and priced, as well as First Day Covers, presentation packs, FRAMAS, PHQ cards, ‘Smiler’ sheets, errors – and a host of details.
• Includes simplified listings of specimen overprints.
• Includes the popular Post Office Label Sheets.
• Includes Post Office Yearbooks and Year Packs.
• Helpful introductory section providing definitions and guidance for the collector and including all watermark illustrations shown together to assist identification.
• Recently discovered errors and new items now listed.
• Post & Go stamps fully listed.

The SG Deluxe Dual Ultraviolet Lamp is both short wave and long wave meaning it detects both phosphor and fluorescence on stamps - it's the only UV lamp you need.

Can be used in daylight - it’s the only philatelic UV lamp that you don’t need to shut yourself in a darkened room to use

Easy to use – a simple push switch saves battery life

Powerful bulb gives a much stronger reaction than most philatelic UV lamps

Designed to be completely safe on the eyes, with a protective cover

Robust, sturdy, handheld, light and portable

The bulb has a life of 50,000 hours – vastly superior to other models

The eyepiece features a high quality lens for accurate viewing

Broad spectrum light (from 254mm to 365mm) allows a wide range of phosphors and flaws to be detected

Designed to make ‘sweeping’ easier – saving hours of hard work as you can look at several stamps in one sweep

Magnifier eyepiece allows detailed inspection of your stamps

"I have to admit that I’m not always too keen on what they like to call ‘embracing new technology’ ...However, now and again something comes along that I feel I just have to have" - Hugh Jefferies, Stanley Gibbons Catalogue Editor.

The presence or absence of phosphor can be a significant feature in assessing the value of a stamp, so having a lamp of
your own and knowing how to use it can be a valuable asset in building up a good collection.

There are a number of lamps on the market, but, to be honest, none that we would be prepared to put the Stanley Gibbons
name on – so we set about developing one ourselves. To do that we looked at what was wrong with all the others and tried
to right those wrongs.

"Terrific...I was able to find the phosphor number of FH14 which I had not found with a standard mains UV lamp. The new SG UV lamp has paid for itself in finding one booklet alone catalogued more than the purchase cost in going through booklets that I had catalogued as p-. Together with the Pro10 I was able to record the phosphor, something I have been unable to do before." - Graham Stirling, very happy customer.

Some lamps may be cheap but they are potentially damaging to the eyes if looked at for a prolonged period – added to which an exposed bulb was susceptible to damage and could require regular replacement.

Other lamps required mains electricity, which was not handy for use away from home and, above all, many had a tricky on-off switch which made them difficult to use. Of course the main problem with most ultraviolet lamps is that they are fine for night-time use, but pretty useless in daylight – which means you cannot use them effectively at stamp fairs, club meetings or shops.