Welcome to the unique web site dedicated to worldwide joint stamp issues.
This website is based on the previous website of the former International Philatelic Society of Joint Stamp Issues Collectors IPS JSIC that now becomes

Joint stamp issues are stamps released by two or more postal administrations at the occasion of a common event or anniversary and that are characterized either by a common design or the same date of issue or both.

As the number of issues of this type has been growing almost exponentially in the past years, and also, as more and more stamps collectors are interested in this new type of collection, it appeared realistic to create a space for collection and exchange of information about Joint Stamp Issues. This web site will provide free access to all this information with the hope that more collectors around the world will join, but above all help to provide the latest data on this topic.
Membership is free and if you want to join just drop your e-mail address. You will be informed at regular intervals (not more than three or four times a year) about major changes on this web site and more specific information on new products.

In fact answers to your requests can come from any of these three members. Feel free to contact any of them, and we will try to find the best person to get you the right answer.

Today more than 134 members from 21 countries have already joined the society

In fact a member is only an individual who has expressed his interest in joint issues, wants to be informed regularly on this topic and under certain circumstances could provide some information from his local environment on joint issues. He will remain a "virtual" member.

On the contrary to the former IPS-JSIC created in 1997 and that had official by-laws as well as an identified physical address, this association will work as a "virtual" International Philatelic Society. Collectors are spread all over the world and meet physically only at a local level on the basis of personal mail exchanges. However from now on, we decided to made accessible for free all the information that was so far limited to members of the IPS-JSIC. This major move is a consequence of the difficulty to produce the Quarterly Report "Joint Stamp Issues" the former Society journal [ISSN 1712-8390 (Print) ISSN 1712-8404 (Online)] that had reached the Number 39 in November 2007. By stopping the production of the journal, there is also no need anymore for requesting membership fees. The information that was available through this journal will be distributed at irregular interval through the News Page of this site.

The content of this site will mainly depend on the information sent by all stamp collectors. However we intend to keep it as exhaustive as possible. Due to the huge amount of work required to go back in the past, at this stage the information that is available corresponds to the data gathered during the 10 years of existence of the former society.

So in this site you will find the following:
- chronological list of illustrated new joint issues with detailed information (past 10 years)
- list of upcoming joint issues (2008-2010)
- the detailed classification system used throughout all documents and the definitions used in all sections
- links to site of interest related to joint stamp issues
- the FAQ about joint issues
- the list of Society publications (coming soon)

Not yet everything was made available as the amount of information is huge, but this should be completed by end of the year. In particular we will add the following:
- reports on specific country joint issues
- special articles about specific pairs of joint issues
- the full text quarterly reports "Joint Stamp Issues" journals as pdf files

We also intend to make available in the near future
- the list of full addresses of members who agree to have it published (it favours exchange between specialists) - a written agreement to publish your address will be necessary but a simple mail will be sufficient also to be removed from the list
- an advertisement section for exchange of material between members

Material that has no real interest anymore because part of history such as all the paperwork related to the former IPS-JSIC (meetings, by-laws, …) will be found in the Archives section (coming soon).

Printed work is still available.
- the most recent catalogue on joint stamp issues (2006, 736 pages, 3,400+ illustrations). For more details click here or contact RZ
- the catalogue updates 2007 and 2008

By February 2009, the third update to the catalogue will be published (corresponding to all stamps issued during 2008). All members will be informed about the publication in due time, another reason to become a "virtual" member.

And if you are interested in buying some joint stamp issues you can take a look at a selection by consulting the most recent list made available by Richard Zimmermann. For more details click here.

Finally do not miss links to special sites created by our members and of course the other sites on philately of our Webmaster, Eric.

I hope you will enjoy collecting Joint Stamp Issues
With my warmest regards

Richard Zimmermann (July 2008)

If you want to exchange information about joint stamp issues with other collectors, join the mailing list !