This site is dedicated to the collecting and study of the stamps of Great Britain and related material. It consists of three parts:

• GBStamps.com for all collectors of British stamps Go to the site guide or the headlines or the other new items
• MachinMania.com with lots of information about the myriad of Machins
• The Great Britain Collectors Club, the only North American group dedicated to British philately

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Check here frequently for the latest news about GB philately. Click on the link after the headline to read the story. Some recent stories are listed here. All recent stories are listed at the top of the News page. From there, you can also read news stories from prior years.

Douglas Myall has established a Deegam web site with information about all of his Machin publications.

Royal Mail’s annual rate increase brings a significant change to airmail rates and several new Machins.

Have you noticed that times have changed?

And that Royal Mail is issuing quite a lot of stamps with military themes?

A Timeless Classic tells the story of the development of the stamps we fondly know as Machins

British Stamp Exhibitions catalogs the sheets, cards and labels distributed at stamp shows in the UK.

The Machin FAQ has been updated with information about the underprints seen on Machins.

The main section of this site contains these areas:

• Virtual Great Britain Album - Current sections include the pictorial regionals and an extensive postal history exhibit.
• News - Read the latest … and everything that has been posted since 1998.
• Links - Some of interest to GB collectors and some for all stamp collectors.
• Musings and Miscellany - Topics to ponder and other items of interest.
• What’s New - See what has changed in all sections of the site since you were last here.
• Quizlets - See what viewers thought about a number of topics.
• Notification - be notified by email when this site changes by joining the GBStamps.com mailing list.

The other sections of this site have their own main pages:

• MachinMania.com - Be seduced by Machin Mania on the web, where you can see Machin high values and Designer Machins in the Virtual Machin Album, you can learn The Machin Story in the Virtual Machin Album, read the Machin FAQ, try the Machin Quizes, learn about clubs for Machin collectors, view links related to Machins and more.
• Great Britain Collectors Club - The only North American club for GB collectors. Several articles from the club’s journal, The Chronicle, are reprinted on this site, including interviews with many key members of the British philatelic community. There are also some tables of postage rates during the Machin period (1967 to date).

I’m Larry Rosenblum. I’ve been collecting British stamps for over 20 years. I’m the official webmaster of the Great Britain Collectors Club. For ten years, my colleague, David Alderfer, and I wrote the monthly Great Britain column for Linn’s Stamp News. I retired in 2002, but David still writes it, and it appears on the second Monday of each month. Our book, derived from our columns, is pictured at left. It is available from Amos Press. Just type ‘rosenblum’ in the search window.

Take a look at my Machinmobile. Meet my new girlfriend. See me at the top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. See the rare giant Machin I found at the Grand Canyon. Or, see the result of excessive Machin Mania. Many who visit this site assume I am British, but I was born in and have always lived in the United States. Currently I live in California. Please write to me at and say hello.

GBStamps.com won a silver medal in the National Philatelic Website Competition held at Midaphil 2000. At that time, Midaphil was an American Philatelic Society “World Series of Philately” show. Back to top.

Last update February 20, 2008
Copyright © 1998 by Larry Rosenblum; Stamp images Copyright © by Royal Mail