A Postage Stamp Blog
This is a new simple to use web app that will hopefully help you find a town that fits with a partial postmark you may have. Updated 30th August 2025 – now with over 50,000 records. Features image uploads, postmark submissions and a comments system. You can find the app here: Great Britain & Ireland Partial Postmark Finder.
I have designed and will continue to work on an online listing of the England, Wales, Ireland & Scotland numeral postmarks used from 1844 up until the cut off date of 1906. The list for each country can be searched for results that contain matches or partial matches to a degree of similarity. The shaped buttons are oval for England & Wales, diamond for Ireland, rectangular for Scotland and a circle for London – as per the shape of the cancels. These will switch between the lists. There is still a lot of work to do, including transcribing the first…
This is a quick review of Carson’s 60-120x LED microscope (MM-300). I bought one of these little microscopes late last year and was again impressed with Carson’s handiwork as I had been with their USB microscope. The following images should give you an idea of size and build. It’s a tidy thing. It’s a good compact size and fits in the hand or a pocket. I have found it very useful to make quick inspections of paper types. There is a lever with a circular motion that controls the zoom from 60-120x. I find the 60x is most useful to…
zPix™ 300 – MM-940 I was asked for my appraisal of this microscope over on the Stampboards forum so I thought I would post it here too. This is a USB handheld microscope that connects to your PC (I’m using Windows 10) or Mac and displays it’s images on your screen. First a couple of photos so you can see what it looks like and get an idea of the size. It has four bright white LEDs to light up the subject. It can also be attached to a little stand that holds things firmly, like for viewing slides…. The…
