European Stamp Prices & News

Today’s stamp collecting blog review is Philatelic Tidbits (http://www.philatelictidbits.com). It bills itself as “News, rumors, gossip and tidbits about stamps and collecting.”

While it amuses us to think that there is a lot of stamp collecting “gossip” to be blogged about, Philatelic Tidbits is a somewhat light-hearted, fun look at stamps. The author, Allen Bohart, has been collecting for over 20 years, and the blog has archives back to March 2005. Some of his posts pick out the more interesting, if not exactly mainstream, stories from the stamp world. For example, recent articles talk about fractal art on stamps and “philately and murder” (about a novel whose main character becomes a hit man to pay for his stamp collecting), as well as stories about new issues (with emphasis on Canada and the US).

The blog is simple, and nicely designed. It’s light on technical explanation, but various RSS feeds are available, and comments are enabled, though sparse. A major lapse is that the monthly archives menu isn’t on the main page (in fact, we came across it accidentally while reading the “About me” page). If that were on the main menu, it would be easier to look around. As it is, you have to sort through the pages (about 4 posts per page only) one by one or use the extensive tagging links.

Aside from such technicalities, Philatelic Tidbits has interesting, easily-read (and short) posts about stories that are interesting but you may have missed. Its worth subscribing to the RSS feed; posting frequency isn’t consistent but it’s likely that the blog’s articles will generally be interesting to any stamp enthusiast.

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