We start magazine "Philatelic Journal"

 

I'd like to announce all the stampedia user about our new book "Philatelic Journal" which is published on 20th April.

 

This book contains 8 philatelic articles highly specialized in traditional philately, postal history and thematic philately by Japanese active philatelists. A4 size 132page Full-color printing Bilingual(English&Japanse)

 

It is already on sale in Japan , however, we're going to sell one on ebay soon and the price will be 11 EURO or $15.

We donate 300Yen(=$3.6) per one Philatelic Journal sale to the Japansese Red Cross Society. So we appreciate everyone who generously purchased our philatelic book.

 

 

 

目次

 

Hawaii early stamps

Fumio Yamazaki

 

Ryukyu Stamps Collection(Mainly Provisional Stamps)

Tsukasa Ishizawa

 

The Opening of China from 1745 to 1897

Mitsuhiro Ohba

 

Appeal and Difficulty of collecting the Estonian Flower Design Stamps

Akihiko Ito

 

First Issue and Traditional Collection in Austria

Tamaki Saito

 

Thematic Stamp Collection and its Components

Yosuke Naito

 

The First Issue Stamps of Argentina

Koishi Sato

 

Etched Stamps(1871-1876)  

Shin-ichi Chiba

 

Digital Philately makes you happier!

 

Yokohama Travel Guide

 

 

We've started Stampedia Japanese Version!!!!

We "Stampedia project" are thinking what we can do for the people in Tohoku&Ibaragi damaged from terrible earthquake and TUNAMI. I didn't feel like doing anything myself for several days after the disaster though I don't living in that area. I know it is too early talking about reconstruction, but the days will come for the people in Tohoku and Ibaragi to pursue hope in hobby. So we decided to release Stampedia Japanese version.

To be honest, the language "Japanese " is quite different from the other languages and thus we don't think the translation system we use is enough. We were planning to release Japanese version after the release of some other languages. We've already started French and English in 2009, German & Spanish in 2010. We were just planning to release Russian, Italian and Dutch but now these projects are stopped and we're focusing to Japanese version.

We know the number of stamps exhibited in Stampedia is small, we also know we need more functions. But we also know people in Tohoku and Ibaragi will do their great best to reconstruction in the future. In comparison to their effort, the effort stampedia needed is very small I think.So we have to work hard to improve stampedia much more to all the philatelists in the world.

 

I'm going to New Delhi and visit INDIPEX 2011.

From 12th to 18th February 2011, Indipex 2011 is held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

I hope to join a big international stam show, my friend in Paris who has alreday be there says it is quite a small one ,however.

But anyway , I'll be there from Tuesdady to Wednesday. This time we don't exhibit stampedia demo service in the event ,so I'll be involved seeing the ehibition and getting stamps for my wantlist!!

Zoom Stamps

Some stamps have very tiny words in the design. For example, GREAT BRITAIN 1858 Definitive   2p has plate number on it, but very tiny numerals.

With the new released "Stampedia Zoom" , you can now easy to see it like this. you can find number "5" in the scroll work at the sides of the stamp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to use this function, you just click Zoom button on each stamp detail page.

This function will be member only function in the future , but you can use it without registaration for a while.

Zoom button on each stamp detail pages.

It becomes easier to upload image on your blog!

It was very difficult and confusing to upload images on stampedia blog before, however , it became easier like the other blog services.

 

You can see menu button when you write a body of blog.

These menu button is for example , Bold, Italic ,Underline and so on.You can even change font,size and color.

 

This button is needed when you want to upload an image. You can find it at the right end and if you click it , popup window appears like this.

 

Here you can upload images to your blog. Please try!

Stamps Seen Recently

Today we released some functions to stampedia. "Stamps Seen Recently" is one of them and you can see seven stamps seen recently on http://www.stampedia.net/ .

As we make this new functions , we're very encouraged with the fact many stamp detail pages are seen all over the world. It's very happy seeing the top page to see which stamps are seen by someone.



We think this function will be more interesting with some information such as how many seconds before this stamp was seen or from which country these stamps are seen. We also have found some bugs such as no image stamps and sill improve it soon.

A happy new year

Another exciting and wonderful year has come !

This year, we have international stamp shows both in Delhi,India and Yokohama,Japan. This year is also a year of Monacophil held.

We hope all of stampedia users to have fun in our website.

Regards,

Stampedia project