This week's tip is one of the last sets issued by the Dominion of India before it became an independent republic.

Sometimes it pays for a postal administration to show an image of a stamp design before the stamp is printed. Editor Jay Bigalke counts the ways.

The Faroe Islands commemorates the 100th anniversary of provisional stamps with this Jan. 11 issue.

Also in this issue, a Kitchen Table Philately review, and the tragic love story documented on stamps and postal stationery of Lithuania and Poland.

Other popular stories this week looked at Royal Mail's new issue of six classic stamps and the new U.S. Flag stamp coming soon.

These stamps released Nov. 5 include 11 different designs with wintery themes such as ice skating and the holidays.

The event celebrating the Royal Philatelic Society London will include major rarities, presentations and talks, social functions and much more.

The €1.70 stamp showing the aurora borealis and the €1.20 stamp featuring a type of long-distance ice skating will be issued March 8.

Also in this monthly edition of Linn's are features about postal reform in India and another on the difference between a pane and sheet of stamps.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail is paying tribute to the history of its stamps, 150 years of organized philately and the 50th anniversary of the royal opening of one of the world’s finest philatelic museums with a set of six stamps being issued Jan. 15.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Royal Philatelic Society London, and the society is planning many celebratory events across the globe.

Additional stories this week looked at a cover actor Yul Brynner sent to Iraq and ceremony details for the upcoming U.S. Gregory Hines commemorative stamp.

Registration is now open for the American Philatelic Society’s 2019 Summer Seminar on Philately.

The 1938-1940 French Guinea set of 33 pictorial stamps is a good buy in unused hinged condition and mint never-hinged condition.

An upcoming stamp from Aland will commemorate the 80th anniversary of a man’s two-month journey across the Atlantic to New York City in a small wooden motorboat.

The United Nations Postal Administration has added Hello Kitty stamps and made other changes to its 2019 stamp program.

On Dec. 27, Royal Mail announced plans for a set of 11 British stamps honoring the 75th anniversary D-Day in 2019. Within hours it was determined that the photograph on one stamp in the set is unrelated.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the birth bicentenaries of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on stamps to be issued in 2019.

The melted cheese dish fondue is featured on recent stamps from two countries.

The United Nations Postal Administration will celebrate the Chinese New Year with a Year of the Pig personalized pane to be issued Jan. 11.