Editing Lundy (section)

===Stamps===
Owing to a decline in population and lack of interest in the mail contract, the [[General Post Office|GPO]] ended its presence on Lundy at the end of 1927.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/lundy-puffin-postage-stamps.php |title=Lundy Puffin Postage Stamps |access-date=20 September 2014 |work=Stamp Collecting Blog |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140824191539/http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/lundy-puffin-postage-stamps.php |archive-date=24 August 2014}} With images of "puffin" stamps.</ref> For the next two years Harman handled the mail to and from the island without charge.

On 1 November 1929, he decided to offset the expense by issuing two postage stamps ({{frac|2}} puffin in pink and 1 puffin in blue). One puffin is equivalent to one English penny. The printing of Puffin stamps continues to this day and they are available at face value from the Lundy Post Office. One used to have to stick Lundy stamps on the back of the envelope; but from 1962 Royal Mail allowed their use on the front of the envelope, but placed on the left side, with the right side reserved for the Royal Mail postage stamp or stamps. Lundy stamps are cancelled by a circular Lundy hand stamp. In 1974, the face value of the Lundy Island stamps was increased to include Royal Mail charges in addition to the charge for transporting mail to the mainland and so from that year it has not been necessary to affix a separate Royal Mail postage stamp.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lundy Postal Service |url= https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lundyisland/discovering-lundy/lundy-post/ |access-date=1 February 2024 |website=LandmarkTrust.org.uk}}</ref> 

Lundy stamps are a type of postage stamp known to philatelists as "local carriage labels" or "local stamps". Issues of increasing value were made over the years, including air mail, featuring a variety of subjects. The market value of the early issues has risen substantially over the years. For the many thousands of annual visitors Lundy stamps have become part of the collection of the many British Local Posts collectors. The first catalogues of these stamps included Gerald Rosen's 1970 ''Catalogue of British Local Stamps''. Later specialist catalogues include ''Stamps of Lundy Island'' by Stanley Newman, first published in 1984, ''Phillips Modern British Locals CD Catalogue'', published since 2003, and ''Labbe's Specialised Guide to Lundy Island Stamps'', published since 2005 and now in its 11th Edition. Labbe's Guide is considered the gold standard of Lundy catalogues owing to its extensive approach to varieties, errors, specialised items, and "fantasy" issues.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.localcollectorspost.org/id21.html |title=The Lundy Changeling? |publisher=Lost Post Collectors Society |access-date=7 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160522060125/http://www.localcollectorspost.org/id21.html |archive-date=22 May 2016}}</ref>

There is a comprehensive collection of these stamps in the [[Chinchen Collection]], donated by Barry Chinchen<ref name="cc">{{Cite book |last=Chinchen |first=Barry N. D. |date=1969 |title=A Catalogue of Lundy Stamps |publisher=self-published |location=Eastleigh, Hampshire |oclc=558737398 |id={{BLCAT|X.512/621}}}}</ref> to the [[British Library Philatelic Collections]] in 1977 and now held by the [[British Library]]. This is also the home of the Landmark Trust Lundy Island Philatelic Archive which includes artwork, texts and essays as well as postmarking devices and issued stamps.<ref>[http://sherpa.bl.uk/42/01/philatelicresearchbl.pdf Philatelic Research at the British Library] {{webarchive|url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110722070224/http://sherpa.bl.uk/42/01/philatelicresearchbl.pdf |date=22 July 2011}} by [[David Beech]]</ref>