Scotiana

Conan Doyle died of a heart attack on 7 July 1930. He was aged 71 and lived then at “Windlesham”, his house situated in East Sussex, England. He was buried in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire. The epitaph on his grave reads “Steel True – Blade Straight – Arthur Conan Doyle – [...]

Quite touching the idea of portraying Sherlock Holmes brooding over the death of his author… all the more since we know how,  at one time, Conan Doyle got so tired of his character that he decided to ‘kill’ him. “I must save my mind for better things,” he wrote to his mother.
In The Final Problem, [...]

Hi Mairiuna ! I doubt you have been able to find the solution to the stamp mystery, since you would need a magnifying glass and the physical copies of the stamps to find the hidden letters.
That’s why I will give you the solution right now!

The letter D is found on The Hound of the Baskervilles stamp, at [...]

Photograph of King George V by W.& D Downey

In fact Mairiuna, it was Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria ( later King George V ) that started the Royal Philatelic Collection.
His enthusiasm about stamp collecting was shared with his brother, the Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII) who bought Prince Alfred’s [...]

This is right up my alley Mairiuna ! Thanks for the invite.
For the benefit of our readers, I can say that I’m really passionate about topical stamp collecting and have marveled in this rewarding hobby of philately since I was 12 years old.
And as of today, I still delight in collecting those miniature [...]