If you are a collector and would like to purchase
stamps or other items from BMS Stamp Bureau,
please contact by email if possible:
In addition, we also welcome collectible
items such as:
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Coins and notes – foreign and
pre-decimal British
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Medals and badges – especially
military, police or fire service
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Postcards – especially older ones but
newer ones also required
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Cigarette and tea cards
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Pre-1950 greetings cards – old
Christmas or birthday cards but not
recent ones
These can be sent to Baptist House in
the same way as stamps.
For Foreign and
Commonwealth stamps:
Ken Flint
02476 504459
foreignstamps@bmsworldmission.org
For British stamps and
other items:
Richard Camp
01952 247783
britishstamps@bmsworldmission.org
othercollectibles@bmsworldmission.org
For bulk stamps - retail and trade
(sold by weight usually on paper):
Richard Pearson
01212 418878
bulkstamps@bmsworldmission.org
STAMP BUREAU
BMS WORLD MISSION
For general enquiries:
stamps@bmsworldmission.org
bmsworldmission.org/stamps
BMS World Mission
PO Box 49 Didcot OX11 8XA
bmsworldmission.org/stamps
Baptist Missionary Society: registered as a charity in England and
Wales (number 233782) and in Scotland (number SC037767)
British Stamps © Royal Mail Group plc 1967–2005
Reproduced by kind permission of Royal Mail. All rights reserved 06/13
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BMS Stamp Bureau
Since the late 1920s, the BMS Stamp Bureau has
been raising money for BMS World Mission by
gathering and selling used postage stamps and
other collectibles. In 1928, this first appeared in
the BMS accounts as a contribution of £60; now,
with your help, it raises over ten thousand pounds
each year.
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put a box to receive stamps in your church,
perhaps with some of these leaflets, to
provide a central collection point
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If you’re able to help us with stamps or other
collectibles, here’s what you can do, either
individually or as a group or church:
ask people to cut round the stamps, leaving
a maximum of 5mm (1/4 inch) of the envelope
showing all round, but be careful not to
damage any part of the stamp including the
perforations. Any envelopes with first day
issues, pre-decimal or older foreign stamps,
unusual postmarks, designs or other marks
on them should be left intact – they may be
especially valuable
•
•
some groups even organise stamp-trimming
session as an opportunity for a chat and a
coffee together
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please sort the stamps into British and other
countries. ‘Others’ includes stamps from all
foreign countries and those of the Channel
Islands and the Isle of Man. If there are
stamps you think may be special or unusual,
do keep them apart
As you send stamps, and other collectible items
such as coins, medals and cards to BMS Stamp
Bureau, we collate and sell them on to collectors
and dealers. The income raised goes directly to
BMS to support the work of transforming lives
around the world.
encourage friends or church members to
keep the stamps from their letters and even
from the schools, offices or shops where they
work
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when you have enough, pack the trimmed
stamps using one bag for UK, one for other
countries and one for any specials, and
attach a note saying where the stamps are
from (both sender and group or church as
appropriate) and label it for the BMS Stamp
Bureau, Baptist House, 129 Broadway,
Didcot OX11 8XA. Send it or give it to
anyone going to Baptist House in Didcot,
perhaps someone from your regional Baptist
Union or Association. If you do post them, try
to use higher value pictorial stamps rather
than ordinary ones
please note that to save costs,
acknowledgements will normally be sent by
email so please provide an email address if
at all possible (whether your own or someone
else’s). Alternatively please send a stamped
addressed envelope if you require an
acknowledgement by post.
We accept all sorts of postage stamps, however
they come, but you can help greatly by making
sure stamps are neatly trimmed before sending
them to us. This will also reduce the bulk,
weight and cost of your parcel. However, there
is no need to soak stamps off the envelope or
backing paper as they can be easily damaged
and are harder to sell. If you have stamps that
are already ‘off-paper’ do send them to us, but
it is helpful if you can sort them separately from
the ‘on-paper’ ones.
We especially welcome stamp collections, in
whole or in part, stamp albums, stockbooks and
stamp collecting equipment of all types. Please
send any collections separately with a letter
giving details of the gift and giver.
You may also like to consider leaving your
collection to BMS by way of a legacy. There
are fewer stamp collectors among the younger
generations so you may consider this a fitting
way both for you to be remembered and for the
proceeds to be used in the on-going mission of
BMS.