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SPECIALIST SOCIETIES

The 
British Thematic Association
was founded
with the objective
 “To promote, encourage and assist the development of thematic philately”

Open to thematic collectors of all ages and at all levels. The BTA offers help and advice on all aspects of thematic philately. Whether you are new to thematic collecting or experienced. Whether you want to collect for your personal interest or improve your competitive skills. The BTA can help. 

For further details or an application form to join please write to:

British Thematic Association
c/o British Philatelic Trust
British Philatelic Centre
107 Charterhouse Street
London EC1M 6PT


The Finnish Society for Thematic Philately

Thematics Queensland

Bird Stamp Society
The Bird Stamp Society was formed in 1986 to cater for the large number of collectors who specialise in bird stamps and relevant material.

American Topical Association

Captain Cook Society
Over 400 stamps have been issued world-wide relating to Captain Cook and the many places he visited.

The CartoPhilatelic Society
Formed in 1955 by a group of philatelists with a keen interest in map stamps

Casey Jones Railroad Unit
Covers everything rail-related on stamps - steam engines, diesel engines, rolling stock, rail bridges, streetcars, subways, trolleys, funiculars, cog railways, etc.

Railway Philatelic Group

Bicycle Stamps Club
The Bicycle Stamps Club is a non-profit, all-volunteer association dedicated to sharing information about the thematic collection of postage stamps depicting or related to bicycles, tricycles and unicycles and their derivatives.

Waterlow Study Circle
The study of everything connected with the work of Waterlow & Sons Ltd and Waterlow brothers & Layton

WEB PAGES on STAMP DOMAIN

STAMPING THROUGH MATHEMATICS
An Illustrated History of Mathematics Through Stamps
Robin J. Wilson
BOOK REVIEW

Newspaper Wrappers

Selected pages on Thematic Philately

Australian Flora on Postage Stamps

Bicycle Stamps - Cycling Events
Bicycle Stamp Gallerie by Gunther Pöpperl

Birds of the World on Postage Stamps
Compiled by Chris Gibbins

Guide to Collecting Cricket Stamps and Covers
details of 32 page guide titled "Going to the Cricket

Chess on Stamps
Site created by Colin Rose

Dentistry and Stamps

Giraffe Stamps
This site aims to catalogue and describe all postage stamps ever issued featuring giraffes

Mahatma Gandhi
The Most Visible Indian in the World of Stamps. Gandhi is the most international of all Indian faces in the world of stamps. Besides India, 80 countries, from Antigua to Zambia, have, so far, issued some 250 stamps on the Mahatma.

Malaria on Stamps
by Larry Fillion

MEDICAL PHILATELY
by Robin Pelteret

Minerals & Gems on Stamps
by Scott Shrader

Petroleum: The Black Gold

Ships on Stamps

Scouts on Stamps
by Hallvard Slettebø

The Perfins Place
The home for information about perfins
by Joe Coulbourne

UPU Specimen Stamps of the Commonwealth
by Robert Buxton

Old Beeb's Waterfall Stamps of the World

Waterfall Stamps


WADP & UPU World Numbering System
The World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) jointly conceived and developed the WADP Numbering System - WNS, which was launched on 1 January 2002.

The King George VI Collectors Society



Books on Thematic Philately

Collect Railways On Stamps 3rd Edition
Published In 1999. Straightforward and easy to use, Stanley Gibbons range of thematic stamp catalogues. This third edition includes listings for more than 8000 stamps.

Collect Fish On Stamps 1st Edition
Published In 1999. Straightforward and easy to use, Stanley Gibbons range of thematic stamp catalogues. Lists more than 7600 stamps that depict over 1600 different species.

Collect Chess On Stamps 2nd Edition
Published in 1999. Straightforward and easy to use, Stanley Gibbons range of thematic stamp catalogues. This second edition covers nearly 600 stamps showing chess or related subjects.

Collect Fungi On Stamps 2nd Edition
Published in 1997. Straightforward and easy to use, Stanley Gibbons range of thematic stamp catalogues. This catalogue covers approximately 1400 stamps which depict around 575 different species.