If your interest is more in Railway Letter Stamps and Railway Parcel Stamps not usually listed in standard postage stamp catalogues, please return to our Home Page and click on the Railway Letter & Parcel Stamps link.
General Information Paper Heritage, founded in 1979, are retail stamp dealers, based in England, dealing in non-Commonwealth stamps, from classics to modern, and quality thematics (topicals). We attend stamp fairs around Britain and also sell by post. We are well-known for our Latin American stamps, but best-known for our extensive stock of Railway Thematics. This website is principally dedicated to railways and you can find thousands of stamps on this theme for sale here in the Retail section (numerous links at left), with further extensive listings in the Private Treaty section, also with a link in the left sidebar.
Furthermore, we provide a useful resource with extensive information on railway thematics in the 'Railway Theme - Articles' section, which, yes, you guessed(!), is also accessible via a link in the left sidebar. We have recently re-styled the entire Paper Heritage website and some of these articles require extensive re-working to make them appear correctly in the new style pages. This is an ongoing process and you will find some pages in the style of the older website for some time to come, and may need to use your browser's 'back' button to navigate through them all.
Catalogues : The Railway Listings We have based our listing extensively upon Domfil and SG. SG exclude many stamps from their catalogue, whereas Domfil lists almost everything - with text in both Spanish and English - and provides Michel, Scott and Yvert numbers. The Domfil catalogue should be available through your local bookshop or philatelic supplier. If you have any difficulty finding their catalogues, please email us.
How we List We list railways by country and have separated the listing into manageable sizes, by breaking it down into NINE main pages of lists ( countries beginning with AB, C, DEF, G, HIJ, KLM, NOP, QRS and T to Z ). For frequent visitors to this site, there is also a separate list of all the recent additions to stock, but these recently-added stamps are included in the nine country sections as well.
Scans Stock items for which there is a scan on this website carry the word scan after the selling price. If you click on the word 'scan', it opens a new browser window with an index to the railway scans available. Select the scan you wish to see. After viewing it, use the back button to return to the scans index page. You can then switch easily between the sales webpages and the scans index in their separate windows.
Slide Show of Scans We have provided a slide show of all the scanned images, shown at about 8-second intervals. Please note, however, that with larger scans, much of the 8 seconds may be taken up with loading the image. A further problem is that the size of each image varies and you will probably need to scroll the bar on the right-hand side of your browser window from time to time. It is not perfect - but it should be a reasonably efficient way to view all the scans - for those with the ability to use this system. You may access the slide show from the railway scans index page ( opened when you click on ' scan ' in any of our lists ) or directly here via this link ( - opens a new window).
Ordering Stamps We do not yet have an electronic 'shopping basket', so customers are asked to copy and paste items of interest from our lists onto an email or into a word.doc (or similar) and to either email or post this list to us. Contact details are on our Home Page.
Prices are in Pounds Sterling.
Postage is extra. All stamps are sent at purchaser's risk, unless sent by Registered Post. Please let us know which postal service you require. For current inland postage rates, please see our Terms and Conditions page (link at left).
Paying for Stamps Payment may be made by several methods. Please view our Terms and Conditions page (link at left) for details. Please do NOT send any payments until we have confirmed that we are holding the stamps for you. We frequently only have one example of an item on our list, which we cannot usually replace, if sold.
Guarantee If you are in any way unhappy with any part of your purchase, we shall replace them, where possible, or take back the stamps and refund you the purchase price (but not postage).
Understanding our Listings A summary of philatelic abbreviations may be found via the Paper Heritage Home Page (link below) or directly via this link (opens in new tab). Please use your 'back' button afterwards, if you wish to return to this page.
Viewing our stocks in person. A list of stamp fairs, which we are attending, may be accessed from our Home Page (link below). We always carry our Railway Stock to fairs, where you will also be able to see our unlisted railway material, such as GB Railway Letter Stamps ( old and modern ), Australian RLS and a small range of railway cinderellas and covers.
Other Questions If there is any further information you require, please contact us, preferably by post or email.
RAILWAY STAMPS FOR SALE To go to the start of our very extensive railway sales listings, Please Click Here