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We often find interesting and unique items in collections that we value and buy. We recently bought the below Florin in a collection and think we will name it the Melbourne Centenary Holey Florin based on a quirky combination of the Melbourne Centenary Florin and one of Australia's rarest coins - the Holey Dollar.

Discover the fascinating story behind this unique piece of postal history! This Australia Air Mail cover, complete with single franking, embarked on an international voyage to Italy only to return to its sender

Why collect Antarctic stamps and postal history? Who writes letters these days? Oh and who lives in the Antarctic anyway? Let's answer a few of these questions.    Antarctic stamps are beautiful, fascinating, and interesting, depicting relevant explorers, scenery, wildlife, history and scientific research. It is the remotest and most hostile part of the Earth and a place very few people will ever go to, which makes it appealing to collect. It is exciting to think of where the stamps have come from, and if they have been posted just imagine the weather conditions the writer was experiencing and the...