200 billion copies so far and counting!

Unbelievable to many but this is the approximate figure of copies sold to date of the Queen’s Machin head stamp. The photographer who took the photo of the Queen’s head was none other than John Hedgecoe, a world renowned photographer

John Hedgecoe (born 1937 – died 7th June 2010) was an award-winning photographer and best-selling author of over 30 books on photography. He established the photography department in 1965 at the Royal Art College where he was Professor from 1975–1994 and is currently Professor Emeritus. His photographs appear in permanent collections at the New York Museum of Modern Art and London’s National Portrait Gallery

Hedgecoe’s profile shot of the Queen was made by him in June 1967, well over forty years ago and was (read more)

published June 7th, 2010

EXCLUSIVE STORY

Mr John Batchelor is probably the person who has designed the most ever stamps (by far) in the history of postage stamps. He loves his work and enjoys working with people in the business all of whom seem to be as enthusiastic as himself.  Every new commission is a new thrill to John always requiring new energy and planning. The team of www.worldstampnews.com is delighted to bring you such an exclusive story of the man who has done so much for the philatelic world

Its amazing that the majority of us reading this article will probably have more than one stamp illustrated by him in our colelction without even knowing….

John Batchelor feels that his career started during the Battle of Britain (read more)

published May 16th, 2010

Outskirts Press, the fastest growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, recently announced it is making available to its family of over 4500 published authors an opportunity to feature their book cover on customized first-class US postage stamps.

Every envelope they send out can then promote their own books with these new eye catching stamps. These are legitimate, custom First Class U.S. Postal stamps, and they come in quantities of 120, each with a color image of the author’s book cover (read more)

published February 22nd, 2010