Canada Post celebrates the triumph of light over darkness on its new Diwali stamp.

Both stamps are a good buy in very fine grade at 80 percent to 100 percent of Scott catalog values.

The Scott editors would welcome seeing an example of this surcharged stamp on a commercial cover.

Royal Mail worked with ecologist, entomologist and president of the Royal Entomological Society Helen Roy on this Brilliant Bugs issue.

Despite being relatively inexpensive, the stamp is not that easy to find.

Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation has organized an omnibus issue of COVID-19 stamps that pay tribute to the medical community.

Also this week, tracing the roots of the Penny Post in Great Britain, and an appreciation of Swiss stamps that picture bridges.

The decades of the 1920s, 1980s and 2010s are examined on new stamps from Belgium, Jersey and Spain, respectively.

Also this week, sharing up-to-date information on U.S. domestic postal rates, and exploring the tangled connection between grace periods and first-day covers for the U.S. 1974 6.3¢ Liberty Bell coil stamp.

The stamps are nondenominated, paying the green-letter (second-class) rate, currently €0.97. The green domestic rate travels only by ground transportation.

This is the first time a major North American exhibiting award will be determined in a virtual competition.

The semipostal stamp features an illustration by Isabelle Arsenault, an award-winning illustrator of children’s books.

The 1897 New South Wales semipostals commemorated the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The six stamps and three prestige booklets in UNPA’s Russia World Heritage set were issued Sept. 11.

When buying, make sure that there are no folds or creases and no perforation separation, which greatly detract from the value.

The designs show six of the country’s cutting-edge physicians and researchers.

The engraved, bicolor stamps issued by the company from the 1910s to the 1930s are colorful and attractive.

Singapore, Sweden and United Arab Emirates are among the countries that received a thorough review for the Scott volume 6 catalogs.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail has issued eight stamps Sept. 3 for the 100th anniversary of the revered Rupert Bear comic, which first appeared in the Daily Express in 1920.

Also this week, a review of Civil War-era Cleage envelopes, and an introduction to the Escudito stamps of Argentina.