Hampshire Philatelic Federation - Links to Other Philatelic Sites

For other philatelic sources visit these Web Sites:

All links checked and weeded by hand on 17th January 2008.

If you want to swap, buy or sell stamps try our Adverts page.

For information about Great Britain's stamps and postal information select Royal Mail, Post Office Archive and National Postal Museum, or the Royal Mail Portal for Stamps & Collecting

The Machin Collectors Club, and the Modern British Philatelic Circle are a must for many, while this is a Canadian collector's view of Machins. Also visit Queen Elizabeth II British Postage Stamp Errors.

See the combined ABPS, BPT, NPS website supporting philately in the United Kingdom, and the The Royal Philatelic Society site.

Check with the UK's Philatelic Traders' Society for a list of dealers and their stock.

For infomation about what's on in the UK try The Stampshows Website as well as the HPF Local Events page.

For more GB look at The Place on the Web for Great Britain Philately, and this new site: Collect GB Stamps.

Look at GB FDC Collectors and GB Smilers Sheets.

Browse the RM Phillips award-winning collection of British Victorian stamps.

Local Resource Website for the Stamp Collector: the Philatelic Portal for news and articles. G.B Postal Towns - search on a partial postmark to identify the post town.

Pierron's Online Catalogue for Modern Great Britain and Commonwealth Errors.

Various Magazines: Gibbons Stamp Monthly, Stamp Magazine and The Postal Gazette.

Support our local dealers and those supporting Hampex. County Auctions Dauwalders of Salisbury Magpie Auctions Rushstamps All Stamps Stanley Gibbons and their catalogue Cavendish Southampton Philatelic Auctions Harmers Bonhams Phil-Index

Look at the EXPONET Virtual International Philatelic Exhibition to see some top class philatelic exhibits from around the world.

For all sorts of World-Wide philatelic information look at the Philatelic Collections in the British Library.

Go to Lee's Illustrated Stamp Listopedia for a vast array of links to valuable and interesting resources.

Look at the Online Links Searching Page.

For a US view: Philatelic Clubs, Shows And Societies On The Web with a list of links.

AskPhil is provided as a service to offer general answers to questions about stamp collecting. They will do their best to provide informative replies to as many questions as possible. Their resource library may provide answers immediately. Also try the Glassine Surfer.

Review this site for the Preservation and Care of Philatelic Materials

Thematic collecting (also known as Topicals) is a great way to get into stamp collecting. Start with the British Thematic Association. Check out the American Topical Association. You should look into Stamp Printing across the world and Stamps Featuring Ships.

Explore Aerophilately through The British Air Mail Society, the American Air Mail Society (AAMS) and Aerophil.

The The Wreck & Crash Mail Society site contains very useful resources about air, ship and rail wrecks and interrupted mail.

Look at The TPO & Seapost Society which is all about the postal history of handling mail at sea and on the world's railways. Its site has a links page relevant to this large collecting area as well as many articles about Seaposts and TPOs in many countries by way of introduction to these topics.

The following excellent site by the WORLDWIDE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN PHILATELY includes aspects of railway mail, as does the PHILATELY OF LITHUANIA site.

Explore Postal History via UK's Postal History Society as well as Worldwide Postal History Links and the Philately and Postal History portal.

The British Postmark Society covers a wide variety of topics from the perspective of British Postal Markings.

For military postal history see the Military Postal History Society, and the Forces Postal History Society.

For Postal Stationery look at The UK's Postal Stationery Society site.

For information about United States stamps look at Linn's Stamp Weekly and the Scott Catalogue

This American Philatelic Society site contains links to many US societies as well as that of the American Stamp Club of Great Britain, hosted by the Virtual Stamp Club. The ASCGB also has a Notice Board.

This informative site shows images of US Stamps and contains tables of stamp identification information as well other detailed information.

For your American Dealer in Britain see Stephen Taylor.

The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society is relevant to stamp collectors and postal historians, and has a link to the Ships List.

The US Postal Service is at US Stamps Online and also here: US Postal Service. By searching Philatelic Phinds you may locate back catalogue items.

Have you wondered about those strange codes on covers from the USA ? To decode USPS Postnet bar codes and more see the Internet Online POSTNET Barcode Decoder by Douglas Quine.

For information about plate numbering on coiled stamps see the Plate Number Coil Collectors Club

For information about Auxiliary Markings visit the Auxiliary Marking Club pages for US and other markings.

View The Siegel Encyclopedia(c) with useful introductions to all major U.S. stamp issues, census information and illustrations for 24 of the rarest U.S. stamps.

The United States Stamp Society has lots of good information including research papers and reprints of articles. Further information is at the Museum of US Essays and Proofs.

Visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and view their online exhibits.

The articles and stamp images on Stamp Collecting News and Information are in the public domain. The text of these articles was published in the United States of America in 1922 and earlier.

Also look at Jim's United States Stamp Album.

For Canadian interest look at the The British North America Philatelic Society and their online philatelic journal archive, or our own Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain. The Archive of Canada contains the Canadian Postal Archive. Finally, check out the Canada Philatelic Specialists site.

Learn all about Meter Franking in the UK (UK Meter Franking) and the USA and Canada (Meter Stamp Society)

Here is the New Zealand Society of Great Britain site. For Australia refer to The British Society of Australian Philately (BSAP) site and the Australia Resource Page. See also, Tasmanian Philatelic Society.

For India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and States see the India Study Circle for Philately.

If Islands are your thing, then check out The Channel Islands Specialists' Society, followed by the Ascension Island Post Office, The Montserrat Philatelic Bureau Ltd and the Island of Saint Helena.

For those islands off of Canada look at The Archipelago of St Pierre et Miquelon (you can change language to English if necessary via their drop down tab).

Check out the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group, British West Indies Study Circle, BWI Literature and BWI Postmarks.

In the Pacific there is the Kiribati and Tuvalu Philatelic Society and the Pacific Islands Study Circle.

Nearer home: Malta Philatelic Society

Look at the Stamp Album Database Project and Stamp Albums Web for Album Pages.

You may be interested in the Stampmaster GB collection database program.

For Philatelic Literature and accessories see Vera Trinder, London, or H H sales, Bradford. Also see Philatelic Literature News from James Bendon.

Explore James E. Lee's U.S. Stamps, Covers, Essays, Proofs, Postal History and Fancy Cancels as well as his Literature resources.

Try Phil Bansner's Web Site & Online Ordering System with a wants list registration and notification service.

Robert A Siegel’s annual RARITIES OF THE WORLD™ sales have brought to auction the largest number of philatelic rarities ever handled by one firm. Thousands of items across a wide range of categories, along with descriptions and prices realized from every Rarities sale, may now be accessed from the Siegel website free of charge. It is an unparalleled resource for all philatelists.

Worldwide Public Philatelic Auctions by Charles E. Cwiakala - auction agent

Stamp Auction Network access to a number of major auctions via a single site

Jim Forte's Worldwide Postal History

Just Links - Try Them - Lots of different interests represented   Watercolour First Day Cover cachets    The Letter Box Study Group Machin Mania The Stamp Collector More Philatelic Resources The Stamp Directory of France Stamps for sale GB Resource GB Packs and PHQ cards Bulgarian Philately SH Stamps Great Britain and British Commonwealth Poppe Stamps offers thousands of stamps for sale by theme or country. John McCulloch's The Philatelic Studies site with links to useful Victorian GB, and interesting US, pages. Specialists in pre 1935 classic mint postage stamps of the British Empire. Edmonds & Turner Ltd. Fine GB Stamps Philatelic Database Site for Beginners Klassische Philatelie

Universal Postal Union and World Association for the Development of Philately sites. The WADP is listing new issues to assist in recognising illegal stamps. See also the Askphil listings of earlier illegal stamps.

New Links for pages containing Hampshire or UK national interest are welcomed - contact the , or please let him know about any broken links on this page.

These links represent preferences of the and are not necessarily endorsed by the Federation.

This page was last modified: 1^st September 2008