Postage stamps bearing portraits of the executed Iraqi dictator are driving a revival in philately. His face, though defaced, still adorns the front of the first British post office in Iraq and it’s here that dealers and collectors come to buy and sell at a weekly auction. Stamps that were worth half a dollar before the war now sell for between three and five dollars. The reason is that stamps have become rare and there are now more people who have money to buy them.