Cddstamps

Exploring the world with commemorative definitive decimal stamps

About Me

SUMMARY Michael, the owner of cddstamps, has collected Great Britain and British Commonwealth stamps for more than fifty years. He owns cddstamps.com and has been a part-time dealer since late 1999 selling through his website and several portals. He writes about stamps at cddstamps.blogspot.com and aerophilately at cddstamps.wordpress.com. He can be contacted at cddstamps@gmail.com. He is a member of the Great Britain Philatelic Society (GBPS), The Modern British Philatelic Circle (MBPC), The American Philatelic Society, the ADPS Stamp Dealers' Society of the UK, and the Internet Philatelic Dealers Association (IPDA) where he is the General Secretary

 

In December 2020 he was awarded a Runner Up  place in the Philatelic Traders Society (UK)  Annual Awards for his contribution to philately and with special mention and recognition of his recently published book.

cddstamps started selling stamps in late 1999 when Michael created his first web site cddstamps.com. Since then he has had two upgrades / modernisations to his site.

cddstamps now sells through the Hipstamp online portal. The Hipstamp portal is the primary sales channel.

cddstamps started with the predecessors of Hipstamp in December 2006 and today in 2020 cddstamps has a reputation reflected in over 19,500 positive feedbacks and over 38,000 items listed in the cddstamps store. Since 2016 all stock has been listed with both Stanley Gibbons and Scott catalogue references.

Having lived in the UK, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Hong Kong Michael is now permanently relocated (retired from the Corporate world that is) in Laoag in the northern Philippines. As cddstamps, he and his wife, with a couple of additional helpers as needed,  now provide a more full time service to their customers.

Michael writes a blog http://cddstamps.blogspot.com about stamps,  which gives readers some interesting thoughts and information about stamps and stamp collecting

He also writes a blog dedicated to aviation and aerophilately - have a look at http://cddstamps.wordpress.com

Michael also writes for the ADPS, the ISWCS, the IPDA and the AFDCS philatelic society journals. He was previously a regular contributor to the now unpublished STAMPINSIDER magazine

The cddstamps Newsletter is  published monthly.   To request a copy please write us at cddstamps@gmail.com. It is a one page update on cddstamps activities including shows to be visited and new listings.

Michael supports young and new collectors and has done for the past 25 years through his "Children Corner" free stamp offers. He has sent free stamps to over 1770 collectors in 95 countries; that amounts to over 250,000 free stamps. Self promotion maybe, but cddstamps is pleased to be helping so many new, young and even old collectors.    He has recently started a Ko-fi page  here  and if you want to  'buy Michael a coffee'  he will  use that for the postage of his Children's Corner mailings. 

Michael is a member of a number of major philatelic organisations including the Great Britain Philatelic Society (GBPS), the American Philatelic Society (APS) and the Internet Philatelic Dealers Association (IPDA). 

Please visit the cddstamps store here at Hipstamp

Michael, Laoag, Philippines, updated April 2nd 2021.