Amazingly, the day after posting this video, Tower Mint released images of the new Pitcairn stamps to be issued. (Incredible timing, I know!). Check out Mark’s blog where he looks at these new stamps and discusses his interest in Pitcairn: philatelicpursuits.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/pitcairn-islands-2023-part-1-mar-2023/
😊 thank you!! It’s amazing what a piece of paper can teach me, I also went down plenty of other rabbit holes that didn’t make it into the video, so many fascinating angles to explore with the Island and the Mutiny. Thanks for watching!!
😂 well I guess captain Bligh was important to the descendants of the island, had he not been an abusive captain and lost his ship, they wouldn’t be there … thinking about that now, that is quite an unusual reason to be honored on a stamp🤔😂
Once again brilliantly combining culture, history, and philately which shows how relevant a philatelic pursuit can be for those of any age, young or old. Keep up the great work!
I am firmly of the opinion that the best stories contain boats, and the story of the Pitcairn Island mutineers did not disappoint. 9/10 on the Kat Boat Story Appreciation Scale
Terrific!! 😊. You are probably right, add a boat to a story and it greatly increases the adventure and excitement. Glad it scored so high on the Kat Boat Story Appreciation scale, wow!! Thanks so much for watching 🤗
Excellent, Graham! When I was a child, I saw a photo of one of the stamps you have shown, with a parrot depicted. Decades later, I was able to buy the set for my collection of British Commonwealth stamps.
The Pitcairn Islands has a fascinating history along with their postage stamps You did a stunning job to bring forward the history of the Pitcairn islands to us👏👏 I did a bit of research too and found out that *Pitcairn issued a stamp in 1957 which descripted that the Pitcairn School was shown, but the picture was incorrect.😅 The stamp was reprinted the following year, with a change in the description to correctly identify the picture as school-teacher’s house* :) I'll definitely get started to collect The Pitcairn Stamps ; they are too beautiful, I dont think after watching this episode anyone can refuse to collect Pitcairn stamps
Great video, thanks as always for making this! I do think it would make sense for Pitcairn to make a stamp commemorating the ISS, since a lot of the time the astronauts there are closer to Pitcairn island than any non-Pitcairn islander on Earth.
🤯 whoa that’s right!!!! Haha a very good point, they are closer to a space station some of the time than to a major land mass by a LOT of distance. 😆 thanks for that 👏
During my heyday of stamp collecting, I had the entire MNH collection of Pitcairn stamps from 1940 - 2004, sadly I had to sell all of my collections in 2005 due to bad economic times. One thing that I would like to point out was that the "Official" religion of Pitcairn Island was Seventh Day Adventism. Thank you for doing this topic, may I suggest another island country that had a low yearly issue rate: Christmas Island.
Oh wow a full mint collection is quite something, even if you no longer have the collection it is still an impressive achievement to be proud of 👏. Yes Christmas Island is something I know just a little bit about, but would love to explore in more detail soon. Thanks so much 😊
Thank you for this excellent presentation of the Pitcairn Islands history through their beautiful stamps/covers. The Pitcairn rabbit hole I traveled down was the 1987 #281-4 modern cargo ship stamps. Im slowly but surely finding these 20th century ships to add to my collection. Again, thank you for your first rate presentation.
Greetings Graham. Such an excellent presentation on this historical island...one of my favorites! Thank you for showcasing it! I've been a huge fan of the history that surrounds Pitcairn. The famous mutiny is what lured me into its story. Hopefully you got chance to check out some of the old videos of the mutineers relatives. Of course, Fletcher Christian's relatives were featured in a few of them. Fun fact, Maurice Bligh, great, great, great grandson of the captains paid a visit to the island in 1971 and became great friends with Christian's great, great, great, grandson, Tom. Tom is the figure featured on the Series Definitive 1977-1981, "The Island's Bell" as he served as the island's radio operator. He was also a key figure in promoting tourism and produce which included the Pitcarin stamps.
Thank you 😊. I did indeed see some of the old (and new) footage of the mutineers' relatives, but I didn't know about Maurice Bligh becoming friends with Tom Christian, amazing!! I'll have to take a closer look at the Island's Bell series, but I did see images of him operating the radio. So many interesting things to look into. Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow, a very good episode that had me hooked from start to finish! I only have one of two Pitcairn stamps but that may change now after knowing the history. Thank you Graham.
😊 Thanks Kees! Yes absolutely, I only had a few Pitcairn stamps when I began researching the topic, then I just HAD to get more with covers as I found it SO interesting, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Oh excellent! I was excited to find several Pitcairn stamps in my collection while I was researching the topic, glad you have some as well. Thank you for watching 😊
Wow! did not know much about Pitcairn Island and actually found out I have a few stamps as well. Amazing presentation on history of this Island. Salut!
Dang! Now I want to add the Pitcairin Islands to my short list of countries I collect. Why do you make such interesting videos?!?? Have you no care for my limited budget?! Sillyness aside, great video, well researched as usual!
Thank you Ranger Sly 😊, haha now you HAVE to add Pitcairn to the list, with such an epic origin story and beautiful stamps, how can you not collect them? 😅. Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
I agree with Rangersly. I've gone down these rabbit holes in stamp collecting after watching your videos as well. It's been a lot of fun doing it, too. As always, great video.
Thank you 😊 Glad you found it interesting! Yes you totally need to find some Pitcairn stamps, especially some with mutineers or the Bounty on them, keep a look out!!
A well researched episode that did a great job of weeding out the fact from fiction. I always wondered why a place so small issued stamps. Ah, yes, money. Thanks for your hard work on these episodes. All your offerings are informative, but the Bog Box of Stamps still rules.
Another interesting episode. I'm pretty sure that the UK also had 'Last Day' covers when we switched to decimal money in 1971. Pre-Decimal stamps expired on 29th Feb 1972.
Absolutely fascinating story and piece of history Graham! I think we've all heard of "Mutiny on the Bounty" but I never connected that story with the Pitcairn Islands; I guess I didn't listen to the movie very closely. Amazing how that piece of history created some philatelic gems! Not to mention your own gem of a video! Loved it and thanks.
I’m the same! I didn’t pay much attention to the details of Mutiny in the Bounty enough to fully grasp the incredible story that Pitcairn has. It really is amazing. Thanks Gary 😊 glad you enjoyed it!!
Such an amazing episode about a very interesting subject! I didn't know anything about Pitcairn Island. And I don't have any of their stamps, but now I want some. I'll keep an eye out next time I browse the books!
😊 thank you Lisa! Pitcairn really is an amazing area to collect, I’m sure you will come across their stamps in no time! Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
Really interesting mate - Love to see what people are collecting! Have an awesome day! From Fun at Home (Stunts, Jumps, Flips, Corkscrews, Lego, Animations, Cards and Collectables)
Done all my tasks after a coffee buzz! So I have some down time haha! I very much enjoyed the video! Very informative and I think you got the balance perfectly between history of the island as a whole and postal history! Thanks 😊
Fascinating well researched, the image of the set addressed to Turramurra, NSW is a suburb of Sydney. Where I grew up. So surprising!! Love your channel 🎉
Oh wow!! What a nice little surprise. 😊 It’s amazing how some details that I don’t pay attention to can catch other peoples eyes as they relate to their locality or interests. Thanks Greg, glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks Scott, same here. I think it would take over 4 days of traveling for me to get there (maybe 5)… so I would need over a week of JUST traveling, and I struggle to get a long weekend off at my job 😂
Me too!! But I think it’s a 4 or 5 day journey for me JUST to get there. So I’ll unlikely be going in the near future . 😊 thanks for watching, glad you found it interesting!
Bravo, what a great historical discovery. I liked this episode a lot. I'm going to look in the old personal albums of my godmother and my father who gave me presents when I was very young, to see if I'm lucky enough to have an unsuspected treasure!
Vraiment fascinant. Je me suis remis à la philatélie il y a 1 ans. Grâce à cette vidéo, je serai plus avisé si je tombe sur un timbre de Pitcairn Islands ors de mon inventaire. Merci pour cette vidéo. --- Really fascinating. I got back into stamp collecting about 1 year ago. Thanks to this video, I'll be more savvy if I come across a Pitcairn Islands stamp during my inventory. Thank you for this video.
😊 Carl!! So happy to see that you found it interesting. Keep a look out, there are some wonderful Pitcairn stamps out there to collect. Thanks for watching!
very informative and very interesting to listen, this tell how much a stamp can tell about history, sadly Pitchairn Islands is the only place i missing stamps.
Thanks Henrik 😊 Oh definitely keep a look out, I’m sure it won’t be long before you get some epic stamps from this amazing island. Thanks for watching!!
Very informative video on Pitcairn Island stamps. I used to buy Pitcairn island stamps through New Zealand Post (I have an account with them) & I had brought some very beautiful Pitcairn island stamps such as Pitcairn's Longboat History stamps (it is a Se-tenant stamp consisting of 5 stamps), Pitcairn Islands Sunsets (set of 6 stamps), a set of 6 stamps on Pitcairn Islands fishes, Pitcairn Islands Digital Globe (set of 4 stamps) etc. Pity that they do not issue any more of these beautiful stamps.
I accidentally got an almost complete collection of Pitcairn Island stamps a few years ago as a result of buying a junk box of stamps from a seller on Ebay who knew nothing about stamps. Several very nice covers were in the box too but my favorite was a post card from the 50’s with a small piece of wood glued to the front and identified as a piece of the Bounty. I did some research and found out that the islanders did glue bits of the wood on postcards from the Bounty for awhile but stopped because they didn’t want to destroy what was left…..apparently not much!
@@manunui871 Is the card signed by the Christian family members. I believe the research indicated those family members did sign the cards as a way of raising money for some projects on the island. My card has two family members signatures that are supposedly Christian descendants.
@@gc3252 I had to check with him. It was gifted to my dad during his time on Pitcairn (around 8 years accumulated time from many visits over 5 decades) from his mother-in-law (my mom is a Pitcairn islander), and was a sliver of the Bounty rudder. He no longer has it because it was stolen. I always thought the Bounty piece was pretty cool.
I agree!! Why would they think that I would be interested in only buying royal family on Pitcairn stamps? they are totally missing out on the amazing imagery that this Island has to offer. 👍
@@ExploringStamps it was from 2014. This section in the report hit hard:/ "Philately sales worldwide are declining due to an ageing and decreasing collectors market. Along with technology advances that have seen general postal services decline, means this is effectively a dying industry. It is unlikely, that stamp profits will provide any significant contribution to the Government budget in the future."
Its ashame that the pitcairn islands does not issue island related stamps anymore. It's my biggest fear in stamp collecting. Aruba went through a few years of bad issues but they're on track now a days.
It is a shame! A few folks have told me now that they reached out to Tower Mint and have been promised that topics related to the islands will be issued in the near future, fingers crossed that it happens 🤞
I believe the delay in your order could be related to the Royal Mail ransomeware attack that plagued international mail for awhile. My Guernsey Post order was delayed by over two months.
Yes absolutely! Well, it took them 14 business days since placing the order to actually ship it, according to my emails. This current delay must be Royal Mail, I’m eagerly checking my post box each day! 😆📪 BUT two months for your order is crazy!!
@@ExploringStamps I can relate, I was eagerly waiting for the postman every morning. I was so relieved when my stamp set finally came. I was pleasantly suprised Guernsey Post used definitive stamps to send the package. Definitely beats the bar code sticker, and very philatelic friendly! Thank you very much for your videos. They definitely re-sparked my interests in philately after a two decade hiatus. All the best, and hope you receive your stamps shortly. Cheers from Canada😊👍
I emailed Tower Mint last year and they assured me that their stamp subject matter would start having Pitcairn related designs. And then the queen died. So I imagine they are mired in British royalty designs for a while longer.
Oh nice!!! Thank you for sharing, let’s see what Tower Mint does for the next issues, I was wondering if we could actually contact them about their stamps. Thanks William! 😊
Hi Graham. A question: Every time I post a comment on this channel and it contains a link, it gets deleted. Hope this is this some kind of anti-spam thing and it's not just me.
Hi Niall, yeah usually the comment goes up for review if it has a link in it, probably because of anti-spam. I don’t see any comments held for review right now, but I’ve noticed that it can take a while to show up for me to approve. Sometimes it might just automatically delete it 🤷🏼♂️
@@ExploringStamps OK, fair enough. I just wanted to show you this cool video made by my friend, Roberto Pires (FILABRAS Brazil) on a totally related topic. Let's hope this reply makes the cut :) drive.google.com/file/d/1Uw5yw_x9v-NgJytjmachcsjRjWppkJQR/view
Hi Graham. Great video as always :) I have heard of these last day covers and here is the link to the video(th-cam.com/video/i0C_WpaiRc8/w-d-xo.html). This is also another great philatelist channel to learn many many things from. Thanks a lot Graham :P
Amazingly, the day after posting this video, Tower Mint released images of the new Pitcairn stamps to be issued. (Incredible timing, I know!). Check out Mark’s blog where he looks at these new stamps and discusses his interest in Pitcairn: philatelicpursuits.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/pitcairn-islands-2023-part-1-mar-2023/
Positively fascinating! I’m so happy to see the return of The Big Box of Stamps!
Thank you David 😊 glad you found it interesting. Thanks for watching!
That's called digging out History from a piece of paper. Excellent episode Graham.
😊 thank you!! It’s amazing what a piece of paper can teach me, I also went down plenty of other rabbit holes that didn’t make it into the video, so many fascinating angles to explore with the Island and the Mutiny. Thanks for watching!!
Fascinating episode! It’s so interesting that they issued stamps for both Captain Bligh and the mutineers😂
😂 well I guess captain Bligh was important to the descendants of the island, had he not been an abusive captain and lost his ship, they wouldn’t be there … thinking about that now, that is quite an unusual reason to be honored on a stamp🤔😂
Once again brilliantly combining culture, history, and philately which shows how relevant a philatelic pursuit can be for those of any age, young or old. Keep up the great work!
Thank you James 😊. The Pitcairn Islands certainly showcase the excitement that the hobby offers. Thanks for watching!
One of my fav places on a globe. And I'm a cartographer, so yeah Pitcairn Islands are something. Great episode, thank you!
They certainly are something 😊. Glad you enjoyed the episode, Thank you so much for watching!
Another EXCELLENT episode! Thank you so much, Graham.
Thank you 😊. Glad you enjoyed it!
I keep checking your page everyday for new episodes. Next 30 mins are going to be awesome
Thank you so much 😊. I hope you enjoyed the video! I try to post something very 3 to 4 weeks. Thanks for watching!
Wonderful program, as usual! I always look forward to seeing what you are going to come up with next. Thanks Graham!
Thank you, Nyle 😊
Thanks Graham, it was so interesting to find out about the Pitcairn Islands!
Thanks Karen, it was another fun topic that I enjoyed exploring 😊 thanks so much for watching!
The coolest philately guy. When my passion is low I come to this channel and it gets alive again.
Wait a minute… YOU are the coolest guy in philately 😎. Thank you so much for watching and so happy u enjoyed it!!
I am firmly of the opinion that the best stories contain boats, and the story of the Pitcairn Island mutineers did not disappoint. 9/10 on the Kat Boat Story Appreciation Scale
Terrific!! 😊. You are probably right, add a boat to a story and it greatly increases the adventure and excitement. Glad it scored so high on the Kat Boat Story Appreciation scale, wow!! Thanks so much for watching 🤗
Excellent, Graham! When I was a child, I saw a photo of one of the stamps you have shown, with a parrot depicted. Decades later, I was able to buy the set for my collection of British Commonwealth stamps.
That is such an awesome set 👏. Nice!
Thank you so much for watching 🤗
The Pitcairn Islands has a fascinating history along with their postage stamps
You did a stunning job to bring forward the history of the Pitcairn islands to us👏👏
I did a bit of research too and found out that *Pitcairn issued a stamp in 1957 which descripted that the Pitcairn School was shown, but the picture was incorrect.😅 The stamp was reprinted the following year, with a change in the description to correctly identify the picture as school-teacher’s house* :)
I'll definitely get started to collect The Pitcairn Stamps ; they are too beautiful, I dont think after watching this episode anyone can refuse to collect Pitcairn stamps
😮 That's some fascinating history to collect
Really fascinating episode. Thanks so much 👏👏👏👏
😊 Glad you found it interesting!! Thanks for watching.
Great video, thanks as always for making this! I do think it would make sense for Pitcairn to make a stamp commemorating the ISS, since a lot of the time the astronauts there are closer to Pitcairn island than any non-Pitcairn islander on Earth.
🤯 whoa that’s right!!!! Haha a very good point, they are closer to a space station some of the time than to a major land mass by a LOT of distance. 😆 thanks for that 👏
During my heyday of stamp collecting, I had the entire MNH collection of Pitcairn stamps from 1940 - 2004, sadly I had to sell all of my collections in 2005 due to bad economic times. One thing that I would like to point out was that the "Official" religion of Pitcairn Island was Seventh Day Adventism. Thank you for doing this topic, may I suggest another island country that had a low yearly issue rate: Christmas Island.
Oh wow a full mint collection is quite something, even if you no longer have the collection it is still an impressive achievement to be proud of 👏. Yes Christmas Island is something I know just a little bit about, but would love to explore in more detail soon. Thanks so much 😊
Thank you for this excellent presentation of the Pitcairn Islands history through their beautiful stamps/covers. The Pitcairn rabbit hole I traveled down was the 1987 #281-4 modern cargo ship stamps. Im slowly but surely finding these 20th century ships to add to my collection. Again, thank you for your first rate presentation.
Greetings Graham. Such an excellent presentation on this historical island...one of my favorites! Thank you for showcasing it! I've been a huge fan of the history that surrounds Pitcairn. The famous mutiny is what lured me into its story. Hopefully you got chance to check out some of the old videos of the mutineers relatives. Of course, Fletcher Christian's relatives were featured in a few of them. Fun fact, Maurice Bligh, great, great, great grandson of the captains paid a visit to the island in 1971 and became great friends with Christian's great, great, great, grandson, Tom. Tom is the figure featured on the Series Definitive 1977-1981, "The Island's Bell" as he served as the island's radio operator. He was also a key figure in promoting tourism and produce which included the Pitcarin stamps.
Thank you 😊. I did indeed see some of the old (and new) footage of the mutineers' relatives, but I didn't know about Maurice Bligh becoming friends with Tom Christian, amazing!! I'll have to take a closer look at the Island's Bell series, but I did see images of him operating the radio. So many interesting things to look into. Thank you so much for sharing.
Jawdropping. I just love your videos Graham, thank you for the video!
☺️ thank you!!! Glad you enjoyed the video and channel. Thanks for watching, Michael.
Wow, a very good episode that had me hooked from start to finish! I only have one of two Pitcairn stamps but that may change now after knowing the history. Thank you Graham.
😊 Thanks Kees! Yes absolutely, I only had a few Pitcairn stamps when I began researching the topic, then I just HAD to get more with covers as I found it SO interesting, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Another excellent episode and I enjoyed learning about the Pitcairn Islands, I have a few of their stamps in my collection.
Oh excellent! I was excited to find several Pitcairn stamps in my collection while I was researching the topic, glad you have some as well. Thank you for watching 😊
This is the video that got me into stamp collecting
Wow that’s awesome!! Welcome aboard, this is an incredible hobby 😊
Wonderful work!! Thanks for sharing !! Last and first day cover ! Wow!! My very best, Stefanos, Athens, Greece
Thank you very much, Stefanos! 😊 yeah last day/first day cover might be my new fav thing to look out for at stamp shows, such a cool idea.
I like the animation of the ship sailing off the stamp 😄
⛵️ glad you liked it 🤗. Thanks for watching!
Wow! did not know much about Pitcairn Island and actually found out I have a few stamps as well. Amazing presentation on history of this Island. Salut!
Oh excellent that you have some Pitcairn stamps already 👏 glad you found it interesting, Cyrus 😊 thanks so much for watching!!
what a trip, now I have to watch the films and docus and I all set
It’s a rabbit hole worth jumping in 😆 Enjoy!!
Very well done presentation! I'm excited to score a couple of examples. Thanks for telling this fascinating story.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah Pitcairn stamps and cover are soo cool to look out for and collect. Thanks for watching 😊
Dang! Now I want to add the Pitcairin Islands to my short list of countries I collect. Why do you make such interesting videos?!?? Have you no care for my limited budget?! Sillyness aside, great video, well researched as usual!
Thank you Ranger Sly 😊, haha now you HAVE to add Pitcairn to the list, with such an epic origin story and beautiful stamps, how can you not collect them? 😅. Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
I agree with Rangersly. I've gone down these rabbit holes in stamp collecting after watching your videos as well. It's been a lot of fun doing it, too. As always, great video.
This was another excellent video! Wish you put one out every week lol! Keep up the great work!
Thank you 😊. (I also wish I could do 1 a week 😅)
wow amazing history :) thanks for sharing. Now I need to have my hands on some of those Pitcairn stamps for my collection :)
Thank you 😊 Glad you found it interesting! Yes you totally need to find some Pitcairn stamps, especially some with mutineers or the Bounty on them, keep a look out!!
A well researched episode that did a great job of weeding out the fact from fiction. I always wondered why a place so small issued stamps. Ah, yes, money. Thanks for your hard work on these episodes. All your offerings are informative, but the Bog Box of Stamps still rules.
Thank you Chai, it really is an interesting history to collect. Glad you enjoyed it!
oba start the day with a coffee with milk, cheese bread and new video from my friend Graham, much happiness 🎉
Ooo cheese bread with coffee sounds awesome 😋. Thanks Jessica, glad you enjoyed the episode!
Excellent video and some great artwork.
Thanks Buzza Wuzza 😊, there certainly are some beautiful Pitcairn stamps out there!
Another interesting episode. I'm pretty sure that the UK also had 'Last Day' covers when we switched to decimal money in 1971. Pre-Decimal stamps expired on 29th Feb 1972.
Thanks, Iain 😊. I’m sure there was! I’ve never seen one though, I must keep a lookout and see if I can find one.
Absolutely fascinating story and piece of history Graham! I think we've all heard of "Mutiny on the Bounty" but I never connected that story with the Pitcairn Islands; I guess I didn't listen to the movie very closely. Amazing how that piece of history created some philatelic gems! Not to mention your own gem of a video! Loved it and thanks.
I’m the same! I didn’t pay much attention to the details of Mutiny in the Bounty enough to fully grasp the incredible story that Pitcairn has. It really is amazing. Thanks Gary 😊 glad you enjoyed it!!
Such an amazing episode about a very interesting subject! I didn't know anything about Pitcairn Island. And I don't have any of their stamps, but now I want some. I'll keep an eye out next time I browse the books!
😊 thank you Lisa! Pitcairn really is an amazing area to collect, I’m sure you will come across their stamps in no time! Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
Really interesting mate - Love to see what people are collecting! Have an awesome day! From Fun at Home (Stunts, Jumps, Flips, Corkscrews, Lego, Animations, Cards and Collectables)
Awesome job yet again!
Thank you 😊
Very good TH-cam videos on stamps. I try to watch all of the Exploring Stamps , but I do miss a few.
Wehey! There it is! Thanks for curing my boredom at work 😊
YOU WATCHING AT WORK!?! 😂 Haha thank you for the view, hope you enjoy it!
Done all my tasks after a coffee buzz! So I have some down time haha! I very much enjoyed the video! Very informative and I think you got the balance perfectly between history of the island as a whole and postal history! Thanks 😊
After long waiting, new vlog..like it
Awesome, glad you liked it! 😊 More to come!
Fascinating well researched, the image of the set addressed to Turramurra, NSW is a suburb of Sydney. Where I grew up. So surprising!!
Love your channel 🎉
Oh wow!! What a nice little surprise. 😊 It’s amazing how some details that I don’t pay attention to can catch other peoples eyes as they relate to their locality or interests. Thanks Greg, glad you enjoyed it.
Another excellent episode Graham! Pitcairn Island stamps are probably the closest I will ever get to the island....
Thanks Scott, same here. I think it would take over 4 days of traveling for me to get there (maybe 5)… so I would need over a week of JUST traveling, and I struggle to get a long weekend off at my job 😂
@@ExploringStamps Yes, the lack of an airport is a big obstacle. And there probably isn't a Starbucks anywhere on the island.....
Such a fascinating story. I would like to go to Pitcairn Island!
Me too!! But I think it’s a 4 or 5 day journey for me JUST to get there. So I’ll unlikely be going in the near future
. 😊 thanks for watching, glad you found it interesting!
Bravo, what a great historical discovery. I liked this episode a lot. I'm going to look in the old personal albums of my godmother and my father who gave me presents when I was very young, to see if I'm lucky enough to have an unsuspected treasure!
So glad to see you enjoyed it, thank you for watching. 😊 fingers crossed that you find some treasures 🤞
Soo cool episode! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 😎 thanks for watching!
Awsome Journey and Story!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching Botany Boy! 😊
Vraiment fascinant. Je me suis remis à la philatélie il y a 1 ans. Grâce à cette vidéo, je serai plus avisé si je tombe sur un timbre de Pitcairn Islands ors de mon inventaire. Merci pour cette vidéo.
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Really fascinating. I got back into stamp collecting about 1 year ago. Thanks to this video, I'll be more savvy if I come across a Pitcairn Islands stamp during my inventory. Thank you for this video.
😊 Carl!! So happy to see that you found it interesting. Keep a look out, there are some wonderful Pitcairn stamps out there to collect. Thanks for watching!
Awesome Video and Research :-)
Thank you 😊 glad you enjoyed it!
Stamps really a guideline to leaen history! Well presented video. Greerings from Bharat
very informative and very interesting to listen, this tell how much a stamp can tell about history, sadly Pitchairn Islands is the only place i missing stamps.
Thanks Henrik 😊 Oh definitely keep a look out, I’m sure it won’t be long before you get some epic stamps from this amazing island. Thanks for watching!!
@@ExploringStamps searching is what stamp hobby is, at right moment i find one
Excellent video
Thank you 😊
Looking forward to this video!
Thanks Louis, I hope you liked it 😊👍
Nice video
Thank you 😊
Very informative video on Pitcairn Island stamps. I used to buy Pitcairn island stamps through New Zealand Post (I have an account with them) & I had brought some very beautiful Pitcairn island stamps such as Pitcairn's Longboat History stamps (it is a Se-tenant stamp consisting of 5 stamps), Pitcairn Islands Sunsets (set of 6 stamps), a set of 6 stamps on Pitcairn Islands fishes, Pitcairn Islands Digital Globe (set of 4 stamps) etc. Pity that they do not issue any more of these beautiful stamps.
Excellent episode Graham. Loved it. See you at IBRA?
Thank you Lawrence, glad you enjoyed it. I won’t be going to IBRA, but I hope you have a great time!!
I accidentally got an almost complete collection of Pitcairn Island stamps a few years ago as a result of buying a junk box of stamps from a seller on Ebay who knew nothing about stamps. Several very nice covers were in the box too but my favorite was a post card from the 50’s with a small piece of wood glued to the front and identified as a piece of the Bounty. I did some research and found out that the islanders did glue bits of the wood on postcards from the Bounty for awhile but stopped because they didn’t want to destroy what was left…..apparently not much!
Oh wowww!!!! An actual piece of the bounty 😲that’s a very interesting item, quite a “junk box” you picked up there. Amazing!!
My dad has one of those slivers of the Bounty stuck to a card.
@@manunui871 Is the card signed by the Christian family members. I believe the research indicated those family members did sign the cards as a way of raising money for some projects on the island. My card has two family members signatures that are supposedly Christian descendants.
@@gc3252 I had to check with him. It was gifted to my dad during his time on Pitcairn (around 8 years accumulated time from many visits over 5 decades) from his mother-in-law (my mom is a Pitcairn islander), and was a sliver of the Bounty rudder. He no longer has it because it was stolen. I always thought the Bounty piece was pretty cool.
Such a pity that the Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau has closed down. Tower mint needs to issue stamps that are related to the islands
I agree!! Why would they think that I would be interested in only buying royal family on Pitcairn stamps? they are totally missing out on the amazing imagery that this Island has to offer. 👍
I don't have a stamp from Pitcairn island but this is interesting 🤔 I wish someone will send me one. 😁 Thank you for this episode
Thank you, Vanessa! 😊 I’m sure you will stumble among Pitcairn stamps soon, they are everywhere. Glad you enjoyed the episode, thanks for watching 😆
Fascinating - did you see the islands’ economic report that stated it was unlikely that philatelic sales could support the island further ?
Thank you 😊. I did not see this economic report, I wonder what year it was that was.
@@ExploringStamps it was from 2014. This section in the report hit hard:/ "Philately sales worldwide are declining due to an ageing and decreasing
collectors market. Along with technology advances that have seen general postal
services decline, means this is effectively a dying industry. It is unlikely, that stamp
profits will provide any significant contribution to the Government budget in the future."
Great story! It's a shame they're no longer producing stamps as before. The new issue for 2023 is nice but lacks in comparison to previous issues.
Its ashame that the pitcairn islands does not issue island related stamps anymore. It's my biggest fear in stamp collecting. Aruba went through a few years of bad issues but they're on track now a days.
It is a shame! A few folks have told me now that they reached out to Tower Mint and have been promised that topics related to the islands will be issued in the near future, fingers crossed that it happens 🤞
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU BOTH. My Easter is the 16th April.
Happy Easter 🐰
I believe the delay in your order could be related to the Royal Mail ransomeware attack that plagued international mail for awhile. My Guernsey Post order was delayed by over two months.
Yes absolutely! Well, it took them 14 business days since placing the order to actually ship it, according to my emails. This current delay must be Royal Mail, I’m eagerly checking my post box each day! 😆📪 BUT two months for your order is crazy!!
@@ExploringStamps I can relate, I was eagerly waiting for the postman every morning. I was so relieved when my stamp set finally came. I was pleasantly suprised Guernsey Post used definitive stamps to send the package. Definitely beats the bar code sticker, and very philatelic friendly! Thank you very much for your videos. They definitely re-sparked my interests in philately after a two decade hiatus. All the best, and hope you receive your stamps shortly. Cheers from Canada😊👍
I emailed Tower Mint last year and they assured me that their stamp subject matter would start having Pitcairn related designs. And then the queen died. So I imagine they are mired in British royalty designs for a while longer.
Oh nice!!! Thank you for sharing, let’s see what Tower Mint does for the next issues, I was wondering if we could actually contact them about their stamps. Thanks William! 😊
Hi Graham. A question: Every time I post a comment on this channel and it contains a link, it gets deleted. Hope this is this some kind of anti-spam thing and it's not just me.
Hi Niall, yeah usually the comment goes up for review if it has a link in it, probably because of anti-spam. I don’t see any comments held for review right now, but I’ve noticed that it can take a while to show up for me to approve. Sometimes it might just automatically delete it 🤷🏼♂️
@@ExploringStamps OK, fair enough. I just wanted to show you this cool video made by my friend, Roberto Pires (FILABRAS Brazil) on a totally related topic. Let's hope this reply makes the cut :)
drive.google.com/file/d/1Uw5yw_x9v-NgJytjmachcsjRjWppkJQR/view
The music is from the great movie "The Bounty" (Mel Gibson) by my favourite composer, Vangelis.
Graham I wanted to ask that is my stamp from the hindenburg rare
I hope you can make a video about Vietnam stamp, there is a service stamp series use weight of grains as currency
I will have to look into it 😊 thanks for watching!!
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Wow I have these stamps
THE MORAL OF THIS VIDEO IS : IF YOU COLLECT STAMPS :
1- YOU LEARN GEOGRAPHY...
2- YOU LEARN HISTORY...
3- YOU LEARN HOW TO INVESTIGATE AND EXPLORE...
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Hi Graham. Great video as always :) I have heard of these last day covers and here is the link to the video(th-cam.com/video/i0C_WpaiRc8/w-d-xo.html). This is also another great philatelist channel to learn many many things from. Thanks a lot Graham :P
Oh nice! Thanks Heine, I’ll check out the video and channel, very cool 😊 glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
Nice video
Thank you 😊