{"id":39,"date":"2013-05-20T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T04:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:13:45","slug":"what-we-collect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"What we collect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 50 members, our Society has a diverse range of interests with all things postal: postage stamps, postmarks, revenue stamps, postal stationery, postcards, postal history, cinderellas, cachets, first day covers,\u00a0 \u2013 in fact anything connected with stamps and how they&#8217;re printed and how items are posted.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gandon_xpress.jpg\" target=\"\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90 alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 234px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gandon_xpress-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Gandon_xpress\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gandon_xpress-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gandon_xpress-624x487.jpg 624w, https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Gandon_xpress.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">1954, Lourdes to Brussels: paying the correct rate of 30f postage<br \/>\nplus 65f express fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of us collect Australia in one form or another &#8211; here is a useful reference page for<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.auspost.com.au\/stamp-coin-collectables\/for-collectors\/publications\/stamp-bulletin-archives\" target=\"_blank\">Australia Post Bulletin issues<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.auspost.com.au\/stamp-coin-collectables\/for-collectors\/publications\/stamp-bulletin-archives -\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/australianstrampcatalogue.com\/Australian-Stamp-Catalogue-com---Super-Slogan.php\">Australian stamps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and as for the rest of the world, have a look at these websites to whet your appetite at the incredible wealth of countries and subjects to collect.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stampworld.com\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.stampworld.com\/en\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philatelicdatabase.com\/\">http:\/\/www.philatelicdatabase.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of us collect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdtheme.org\/country\/austral.html\" target=\"_blank\">birds<\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\nwhile others collect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpbr.gov.au\/stamps\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australian plants<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/i-am-obsessed-with-these-science-fiction-postage-stamps-1485587417\" target=\"_blank\">Science Fiction?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 50 members, our Society has a diverse range of interests with all things postal: postage stamps, postmarks, revenue stamps, postal stationery, postcards, postal history, cinderellas, cachets, first day covers,\u00a0 \u2013 in fact anything connected with stamps and how they&#8217;re printed and how items are posted. 1954, Lourdes to Brussels: paying the correct rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stirlingphilatelicsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}