Stamp Blog Review: “The Stamp Echo”

By Eurostamper — March 7, 2008
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The Stamp Echo (http://www.arpinphilately.com/blog/en) is the blog section of Arpin Philately’s website. Arpin deals in stamps of all sorts, for all budgets.

The blog features helpful information about stamp basics - the Penny Black, the Inverted Jenny, as well as occasional news from the postal and philately world. Most interestingly for us, lately they have had some interesting articles about fakes and forgeries, most fascinatingly about Jean de Sperati, an Italian forger whose craftsmanship is legendary, and whose forgeries are sometimes worth more than the genuine issues.

The blog is updated by Daniel Arpin about 2-3 times a month on average and dates back only to October 2007, so it isn’t a place to frequent. The posts that are there are interesting though, and like most blogs in our Stamp Blog Review series, The Stamp Echo offers information not collected in quite the same way anywhere else.

The blog’s layout is very pleasant - nice dark greys and blues, with easy navigation. It would be nice to see more posts per page, but for a blog with so few posts it is perhaps understandable.

Comments are enabled on the blog, and are not as scant as the posting frequency would suggest. For interesting posts about forgeries and stamp design, The Stamp Echo is a knowledgeable, well-written blog.

(The blog is in English with a parallel French version, L’Écho du Philatéliste.)