Introducing the Stamp Collector Advisory Board

The experts on the Stamp Collector Advisory Board provide valuable opinion, advice on information to ensure the magazine's articles and news stories are accurate and truly reflect the hobbies of stamp and coin collecting. Find out more about the members below…

Mike Jackson, philatelic publisher and author
Mike Jackson is a philatelic author and collector specialising in early British stamps. He has written a number of books on the subject including May Dates and the Twopence Blue Plating Guide.

Birthe King, Danish and UK national judge, FEPA Board Director
Birthe collects and exhibits Denmark during and after WWII at international level. She is a Danish and UK national judge, a Council member of the RPSL, and a FEPA Board Director. Her particularly interest is in Open Philately. Born in Denmark, she moved to the UK on her marriage and has been living in London for over 40 years.

Chris King, President, Royal Philatelic Society London
Chris King is an accredited FIP juror in Postal History, Chairman of the British Philatelic Trust, Keeper of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, currently President of the Royal Philatelic Society London, and has been Chairman of the ABPS Exhibitions Committee.

Paul Skinner, Head Curator, British Library Philatelic Collections
Paul Skinner has been a curator at the British Library Philatelic Collections for six years. Before joining the Library he worked as a philatelic describer, and spent twenty years working for Robson Lowe. You can read more about the British Library Philatelic Collections in every issue of Stamp & Coin Mart magazine.

John Scott, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection
John boasts a wealth of knowledge as a renowned postal historian and regularly writes for Stamp Collector. His A to Z of postal history by county series is featured in every issue of the magazine. 

Rick Warren, Chairman, Philatelic Traders’ Society (PTS)
Before co-founding Apex Philatelics with Tim Francis in 1994, Rick worked for a number of other stamp businesses, principally Eaststamps Ltd, Harry Allen and B. Alan Ltd. If you include 'at least a dozen others' you get the picture that Rick served a very extensive apprenticeship. His knowledge of philately is very extensive - Great Britain, modern and especially errors and varieties, general Commonwealth and Western Europe (especially France, Germany and Switzerland). Rick is the chairman of the Philatelic Traders' Society.