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The MAIN subject matter of each column is shown below, HOWEVER be mindful that most columns have four or five totally separate individual stories within them.  Use my "search" box to assit you.  Browse, print-out, and ENJOY!

 

 

Below are some selected Market Man "Tipster" style columns published in the "Australasian STAMPS" Magazine and "Stamp News" Magazines  (the more recent ones with colour images.)  Many of these, and many other original and general philatelic articles, were also published in "Linn's Stamp News" in the USA, the world's largest selling stamp publication - by many light years.  I am their Australasian correspondent.   Most of the Linn's articles have full colour images of the story subject.

Many of these articles, or separate articles also appeared in the leading trade publication "
Philatelic Exporter" in the UK,  where I have written regularly for some 20 years, and continue to do so.  And my feature articles have appeared in many other leading international publications such as:  "Stamp Collector" (USA)  "Global Stamp News" (USA)  "Coin World" (USA)   "Banknote Reporter" (USA)  "Coin And Banknote Magazine",  (Australia)  "Stamps",   "Stamp Magazine",   "Stamp and Coin Mart",  and  "Gibbons Stamp Monthly."  (all UK)    I also have written for numerous foreign language stamp and numismatic and Stamp Society publications as well, and been a consultant and/or contributor to all the major International Stamp Catalogues, such as Stanley Gibbons, Scott, Minkus, Michel, Australian Stamp Catalogue, Renniks, ACSC etc. 

For over a decade from 1984 I was also the Stamp Market 'Tipster' columnist and general writer for "Stamp News" every issue, and never missed a deadline.   I re-commenced that brief in early 2003 after a year or two break from writing to travel the world.   Prior to that I was the Market Tipster columnist and general writer for some years for the venerable "Australian Stamp Monthly".

I have written regularly on stamps and coins and banknotes and associated fields internationally  (plus of course many other totally un-related subjects most especially freelance articles on my other great passion - TRAVEL!) 
for over 25 years,  and have been Managing Editor,  Executive Editor,  Managing Director,  Board Member - even sole owner and publisher of monthly and well respected internationally circulated glossy colour magazines in these fields until very recently. 

Space constraints precludes a longer list of philatelic articles being posted here, as carelessly I did not retain the text for many dozens more smaller pieces when I sold my last computer and wiped the old files.  And I never typed the hundreds of pre-1997 articles on computer sadly, so there is no e-copy record of those.   NOTE - since Linn's Stamp News wiped their on-line access to archived articles in late 2002,  I understand this page is the ONLY on-line source for those Linn's pieces below which are now saved on my server.

The MAIN subject matter of each column is shown below, HOWEVER be mindful that many ASM columns have four or five totally separate individual stories within them.  Browse, print-out, and
ENJOY!

Glen Stephens Online Articles

Printed Worldwide 1996/1999 PNG 1994/1995 "Emergency Overprints": The REAL Story!
ASM March 1998 Aussie Record Price for Cricketing Cover
Linn's March 1998 World Record Price for NZ "Teddy Bears"
ASM April 1998 UK Diana Stamps Printed 5 Days After Car Crash
ASM April 1998 Tonga New Issues About to Cease?
ASM April 1998 PNG Record Price Modern Cover - $4,750
Linn's June 8, 1998
(front page story)
New Zealand Post Buys Invert for Record $66,500
Linn's Oct. 26, 1998
(front page story)
Princess Diana's Memory Tarnished by P.O. Profit Grab
Linn's Dec. 7, 1998 Monaco's Prince Rainer in Stamp Scandal?
Linn's Dec. 21, 1998 Signature Stamps Franked Aussie Mail Bombs
ASM Feb. 1999 Seven Seas Stamps Sold Silently
ASM Feb. 1999 Nigerian Scam Letters Continue
Linn's March 8, 1999
(front page story)
New Australian Rarity Found on 1932 Cover Piece
Linn's March 22, 1999
(front page story)
Australia to Issue Personalised Photo Stamps
ASM April 1999 Mug Shot Stamps Debut From Australia Post!
ASM May 1999 "AUSTRALIA 99" World Stamp Expo a Smash
ASM June 1999 Scarcest Ever Aussie Decimal Set Just Issued
ASM July 1999 New Lord Howe Island Stamps in Legal Fiasco
ASM July 1999 Max Stern & Kevin Duffy Receive Australia Medals
Stamp Wholesaler (USA) July 1999 Early Start For Aussie Dealer Simon Dunkerley
ASM Sept. 1999 Stamp Scoop of the Year! Modern Rarities
ASM Oct. 1999 Internet - What A Tangled Web We Weave!
ASM Nov. 1999 $9,000 Rarity Bought Off Dealer for $600
ASM Dec. 1999/Jan. 2000 USA's Priciest Stamp + $17,250 for 1929 Cover
ASM Feb. 2000 Welcome to the New Century - Unique Jan. 1 Covers!
ASM Feb. 2000 Major Pacific Rarity Found in Junk Box!
Linn's Feb. 14, 2000
(front page story)
Uncle Sam Beats Up on Sellers of North Korea!
Linn's June 5, 2000
(front page story)
Australian Kangaroo Stamp Sells For $30,000 - World Record
Linn's August 21, 2000
(front page story)
Australia to issue stamps for Aussie gold medalists one day after their wins
Linn's October 2, 2000
(front page story)
Australia Gold Medal Stamps being issued already
Linn's October 23, 2000
(front page story)
Gold Medal Summer Olympic Stamps A Smash!.
Linn's November 27, 2000
(front page story)
Australian issues surprise Paralympic Games Stamps 
Linn's April 9, 2001
(front page story)
Long lost major Australian collection for auction - not seen for half a century.
Linn's June 4, 2001
(front page story)
Lt Col. Harrie Evans auction smashes Australian stamp price records.
Linn's March 11, 2002
(front page story)
Aussie golds in Winter Games bring more instant stamps.
Linn's May 20, 2002
(front page story)
Stamp News March, 2003 "Market Matters" - I am pleased to be back writing after a few years absence!
Stamp News April, 2003 "Stamp Storage tips" - Rare Australian Olympics sheetlet 17 might be a 'sleeper'?
Linns May 5, 2003
(front page story)
2 Common Australian stamps sell for $A217,898
Stamp News May, 2003 Ignore Young Collectors... Also The 1960s "Ampol" Promotion?
Stamp News June, 2003 The next 'boom' era – Pre-Decimal Australian First Day Covers
Stamp News July, 2003 Vandal cancels  …  how to avoid them
Stamp News August, 2003 eBay Selling  ...    A fool and his money are soon parted.
Stamp News September, 2003 Lord Howe Island - "Carried by Sea" storm mail
Stamp News October, 2003 Concorde – the end of an era
Stamp News November, 2003
"Linns" November 10, 2003
Single Australian 1915 KGV "Penny Red" stamp fetches $48,400 at auction
Stamp News December, 2003 Will I or Won't I ??? Do YOU have a Last Will And Testament?
Stamp News January, 2004 Two new Catalogues released - and a bizarre eBay realisation!
Linns February 23, 2004 £1 Kangaroo monogram stamps fetches record price $US68,242
Stamp News March, 2004 Knowledge is Power... New catalogues and handbooks released..
Stamp News April, 2004 Renewed interest in Sperati forgeries.
Stamp News May, 2004 The March of the Moderns ...recent issues can be worth big bucks.
Stamp News June, 2004 From PO Discounting to Royal Weddings.
Stamp News July, 2004 It is all in the postmark - cancels and covers worth big dollars!.
Stamp News August, 2004 Common looking USA stamp sells for $250,000! USA ‘Revenues’ scandal
Stamp News September, 2004 "Pacific Explorer 2005" - Sydney April 2005 - will this good ship sink or float?
Stamp News October, 2004 Fill any 1990's gaps NOW. New OZ stamp CD Rom issued.
Stamp News November, 2004 Athens Olympics Sampanis Drug Cheat withdrawn stamp .
Stamp News December, 2004 WHAT is the world's most valuable stamp item?
Stamp News January, 2005 Use NICE stamps please!
Stamp News March, 2005 Big 10 fold price rises for Australian 'Locals'. Ugly USA stamp sells for $500,000!
Stamp News April, 2005 Superb new ACSC '1901-1912' era Catalogue released
Stamp News May, 2005 Nice new Sweden 'Treskilling Yellow' book + Prince Charles Wedding stamp fiasco!
Stamp News June, 2005 'Titanic Explorer 2005'
Stamp News July, 2005 Top grade used Kangaroos in all values way under-valued.
Stamp News August, 2005 Prediction. A new International 'stamp boom' started June 2, 2005.
Stamp News September, 2005 John Lennon's boyhood stamp album sells for $73,377
Stamp News October, 2005
Stamp News November, 2005 New Australia KGV watermark error found. "Vandal" stamp cancels.
Stamp News December, 2005 $A272,000 for a recent stamp USA "Inverted Jenny" plate block sells for $4 million!
Stamp News January, 2006 $4 million stamp swap. Also how to lose $3,000 by auctioning and NOT selling to me!
Stamp News February, 2006 Buy Catalogues! New British Royal Family members?
Linns February 27, 2006
(Front page feature story)
Ugly used 6d Blue Kangaroo sells for $48,500
Stamp News March, 2006 "Burracopin Fever"! New KGV 2d Orange Inverted Watermark find.
Stamp News April, 2006 Stamp sells for 338 times full cat. 1850 NZ set of 3 auctions for $380,542!
Stamp News May, 2006 ebay stamp seller warnings & Australia Post 2005 Leather Exective year album scarcity
Stamp News June, 2006 Price records broken everywhere! "Afinsa" Spain stamp scandal - full report.
Stamp News July, 2006 New Australian Stamp index CD released.  Ronald Reagan new stamps
Stamp News August, 2006 Washington 2006 "World Stamp Expo". Red Hot China and Roo prices!
Stamp News September, 2006 New Zealand withdrawn Maori Kapa Haka stamp set 5 sensation!
Stamp News October, 2006 Know your stamp errors & stamp varieties. Forged NZ Maori error stamps.
Stamp News November, 2006 Stamp collector to get $1 million tax free for a recent new issue purchase!
Stamp News December, 2006 Australian Stamp Errors, varieties, and misprints - mistakes are COSTLY!
Stamp News January, 2007 Two new ACSC volumes reviewed - KGVI and QEII pre-Decimal issues.
Stamp News February, 2007 Arthur Gray Kangaroo Stamp collection for Auction in NY - to fetch MEGA millions!?
Stamp News March, 2007 UK Beatles stamps. Common USA stamp sells for 6,037 times Scott Cat!
Linn's  March 26, 2007
(Front Page Feature Story) 
 Kangaroo Stamps Bring Record Prices at Shreves Auction of Arthur Gray
Stamp News April, 2007 (Lift out) Complete run down of the Arthur Gray Kangaroos sale - sold for $7.15 MILLION!
Stamp News April, 2007 Tax Office actively targets ebay sellers.  Dodgy sellers still infect that auction site.
Stamp News May, 2007 First "Taiwan" stamp. Sir Gawaine Baillie sales Sotheby's. USA "Forever" stamp.
Stamp News June, 2007 stampboards.com launched! Extensive ebay stamp forgery ring totally smashed.
Stamp News July, 2007 Ken Baker - a stamp dealer for 85 years. That must be some kind of world record?
Stamp News August, 2007 Bill Gross's GB stamp collection sells for over $10 US million - proceeds all donated to Charity!
Stamp News September, 2007 Dealer sells USA 24c "Inverted Jenny" for $US1,000,000. Superb new Aust. Banknote book.
Stamp News October, 2007 Australian Revenue Stamp gets world record price. ebay stamp scammers again
Stamp News November, 2007 Stanley Gibbons lose the plot with catalogue volumes. Civil War surprise.
Stamp News December, 2007 Celebrity stamp collectors. Gibbons to cease printing 'Stamps Of The World' catalogues?
Stamp News February, 2008  World Record Price for a USA stamp. Used 2/- Kangaroo stamps sells for $40,000
Stamp News March, 2008
Stamp News April, 2008 Please use STAMPS on your mail! Australia Post issues GOLD Pope stamps.
Stamp News May, 2008 New Eustis AAMC cat issued. ebay cause a riot by insisting on 'PayPal Only' in Oz.
Stamp News June, 2008 Major new 2/- 1913 Kangaroo error discovery. Wrong Eagle on recent PNG set!
Stamp News July, 2008 Stamp collectors help China & Burma recent disasters. Olympic stamp sells $110,000+
Stamp News August, 2008 What exactly is SUPERB USED grade for Australian stamps?
Stamp News September, 2008 “Olympex - Olympic Stamp Expo Beijing 2008” an absolute SMASH success!
Stamp News October, 2008 Check your 4d Kangaroo stamps for this easy to spot plate flaw! "Ballarat Boys"
Stamp News October, 2008 Martyn Greive from A-One Stamps writes off car in Glen Stephens driveway!
Stamp News November, 2008 Australia Post “Publicity Cards”. New Gibbons 2009 B/Cwth Cat – 1840-1970.
Stamp News December, 2008 ACSC to hopefully list Australia USED blocks of 4? New Pierron and SA cats.
Stamp News January, 2009 Ugly USA 'B' Grill stamp sells for $US1 million+. Stamps don't soak anymore!
Stamp News March, 2009 Stamp Storage - valuable tips and advice. Fake "Inverted Jenny" stamp.
Stamp News April, 2009 VALE - Simon Dunkerley - Australian Stamp Dealer – RIP – 1959-2009
Stamp News April, 2009 French President Sarkozy collects postage stamps! Permanent gum soaking tips.
Stamp News May, 2009 Australian Decimals used on Commercial covers - the hot NEW collecting trend!
Stamp News June, 2009 Common USA stamp sells for 300 times Scott. Greg Manning charged by SEC
Stamp News July, 2009 Zimbabwe 100 TRILLION dollar banknote and high face value inflation stamps.
Stamp News August, 2009 GB 1864 1d red Plate 77 trio found on old cover. Rarity or Fake? YOU decide!.
Stamp News September, 2009 "Stampshow 2009" in Melbourne report. Papua Lakatoi postmarks go CRAZY!
Stamp News October, 2009 Australia "SPECIMEN" folders.  Bernie Manning Queensland postmarks Book.
Stamp News November, 2009 New Gibbons 2010 'Part 1' catalogue. Australian Cover Society new handbook
Stamp News December, 2009 The Internet has changed Philately – Forever!
Stamp News Januray, 2010 British Antarctic Territory - Jan 1, 2000 - special numbered Millennium stamp covers.
Stamp News February, 2010 Beware of modern fake and forged postage stamps of China being offered on ebay
Stamp News April, 2010 China Cultural Revolution postage stamp prices going BALLISTIC at HK Auction.
Stamp News May, 2010 Buy all the Australia used stamps in BLOCKS of 4 that you can find! 7/6d Cook issue.
Stamp News June, 2010 Sweden 1857 "Tre Skilling Banco" Yellow stamp to set world record stamp price??
Stamp News July, 2010

Cancels on common Australian States stamps can be worth VERY serious money!

Stamp News August, 2010 Bill Hornadge famous "Cinderella Stamp Lists" - 860 pages of it - now on CR ROM!

 

                                                                                                                                     

 

 

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