Your business pages have been highlighting the difficulties faced by stamp dealer Stanley Gibbons.
As a philatelist in Bahrain, and a postal historian specialising in Great Britain material, I have watched Stanley Gibbons as it has moved away from servicing genuine collectors, and publishing accurate GB stamp catalogues, reflecting true market values, to making short-term commercial gains out of thousands of investors, who lack knowledge and purchase mainly British stamps at catalogue prices, which bear little relation to reality .
