European Stamp Prices & News

The Stamp Collectors Corner blog (http://www.stampcenter.com/blog/blogger.html) claims to offer news about stamps and collections for sale (”Be first to know…”) but actually, it is a great repository for interesting historical information about specific stamps and series, as well as the occasional tips and information for collectors. It tends to be light on actual news.

For example, there have recently been articles about the famous “inverted Jenny” stamp, Ronald Reagan commemorative issues, famous people who were stamp collectors (like Freddie Mercury and Franklin Delano Roosevelt), and more. Many of the longer essays are split into two (or more) days, but even reading both days at once is easy since the articles aren’t too long and are very well written and flow nicely.

In fact, most of the blog’s articles are advertisements for stamp collections being sold on the main site, but that doesn’t get in the way of simply reading for pleasure. One could spend a lot of time on this blog, reading through the archives (from May 2006) and learning about little slices of philatelic history.

The look is pleasing - bland in the typical Blogger.com style - and navigation is clear-cut (though I had trouble finding my way back to the main page once in the archives; I had to go Back on my browser since there was no link to the current month in the menu, and the header isn’t a link). New articles are posted about once every 2-3 days.

There is nothing fancy about the blog, since it is intended chiefly to advertise sales on the main site; but despite itself, the Stamp Collectors Corner blog is absorbing and fun.

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