Below are some selected Market Man "Tipster" style columns published in the "Australasian STAMPS" Magazine and "Stamp News" Magazines over recent decades.  Many of these, and many other original and general philatelic articles, were also published in "Linn's Stamp News" in the USA, the world's largest selling stamp publication - by many light years.  I was their Australasian correspondent for many years.

Many of these articles, or separate articles, have also appeared in the leading trade publication  "Philatelic Exporter" in the UK, where I wrote monthly for some 40 years, until owner Stanley Gibbons sadly closed it down in very recent times. 

My feature articles have appeared in many other leading international publications such as:  "Stamp Collector" (USA),  "Global Stamp News" (USA),  "Coin World" (USA),  "Banknote Reporter" (USA),  "Coin And Banknote Magazine",  (Australia)  "Stamps",   "Stamp Magazine",   "Stamp and Coin Mart"  and  "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" (all UK) etc, etc.

I also have written for numerous foreign language stamp and numismatic and Stamp Society publications as well, and been a consultant and/or contributor or advisor to all the major International Stamp Catalogues, such as Stanley Gibbons, Scott, Minkus, Michel, Australian Stamp Catalogue, Renniks, ACSC, etc. 

I founded in 2005, and still own and run www.stampboards.com, the world’s largest Stamp Bulletin Board.  Way over 11 million posts, over 2 MILLION stamp images, and with membership approaching 30,000 - from over 180 different countries.  All FREE – join up today! www.tinyurl.com/SBjoin - literally the 'Wikipedia' of the stamp world.  A legacy I am very proud of.

For over a decade from 1984 I was also the Stamp Market 'Tipster' columnist and general writer for "Stamp News" every issue, and never missed a deadline.   I re-commenced that brief in early 2003 after a year or two break from writing to travel the world.   Prior to that I was the “Market Tipster” columnist and general writer for some years for the venerable "Australian Stamp Monthly" -  or “ASM” .

I have written regularly on stamps and coins and banknotes and associated fields internationally (plus of course many other totally un-related subjects most especially freelance articles on my other great passion - TRAVEL!)  for over 40 years,  and have been Managing Editor,  Executive Editor, Managing Director, Board Member - even sole owner and publisher of monthly and well respected internationally circulated glossy colour magazines in these stamp and coin fields.

Space constraints precludes a longer list of philatelic articles being posted here, as carelessly I did not retain the text for many dozens more earlier articles, when I sold my older computers and wiped the old files in the 1990s.  And I never typed the hundreds of pre-1997 articles on computer sadly, so there is no e-copy record of those.  It was manually typed on paper in those days and faxed or mailed to magazines! 

NOTE - since Linn's Stamp News  oddly wiped their on-line access to older archived articles in late 2002, I understand this page is the ONLY on-line source for those Linn's pieces below, which are now saved on my server.

Also please make allowances for the IMAGES on these 20-30 year old columns.  We take large sharp colour images for GRANTED in this modern cellphone camera era. Back then, small fuzzy images and blurry scans were often all that were possible to get.  Often only MONO images were obtainable - true!

The MAIN subject matter of each column is shown below, HOWEVER be mindful that many ASM columns have four or five totally separate individual stories within them.  Use the site-specific SEARCH box to assist.  Browse, print-out, and ENJOY!

CLOSURE - In latter 2022 my webmaster in Perth for 40 years very sadly passed away, with no warning. He had done all my webpage work - to this day I cannot alter or add a word on the 100s of old fashioned pages here. It seemed a ‘sign’, and given I am still working 100+ hour, 7 day weeks, at 70+ years old, frankly did not have the time to spend a day a month on them, and decided it was the right time to hang up my magazine column pen! I still add 100s of posts a week to www.stampboards.com on all the current news. From time to time I will be inspired to pen a special subject piece in ‘Stamp News’, I am sure. You’ll see it here!   Glen

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