During the weeks and months ahead, I hope to develop this blog into an integral part of the stampsofvictoria website. I plan to use it to pass along information that may be of interest to collectors and also to pose questions and puzzles about various philatelic issues that I am trying to resolve (or which have been brought to my attention).

It continues to amaze me how much remains to be learned about the stamps of Victoria and the postal history of that colony. When you consider that philatelic students have been examining and researching these issues for well over a century, you might conclude that everything of importance has been discovered and documented - but that is not the case. Certainly there is an impressive library of books, monographs and journal articles on many facets of the colony's stamp history, but there is still much being discovered and many unresolved puzzles remain for the students of the future.

I'm hoping this blog can become a forum for discussion and discovery on many of those topics. Please participate. Victoria is a fascinating area to collect and study, and there are many puzzles yet to be solved.

Happy collecting, Les Molnar