Going Postal is a journey through time looking through the lens of stamp collecting and postage history. Your host is Henry Lukas, the Education Director at the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History.
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This episode involves a volcano, solar eclipse, a shark attack, rockets, and maybe a stamp or two. Learn about Tonga‘s Tin Can Mail on the island of Niuafo’ou on this episode of #philately.
View More Exploring Stamps: #Philately – Tin Can Mail (Part 1)Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian country, and also an archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. An Austronesian-speaking group linked to what archaeologists call the Lapita cultural complex reached and inhabited Tonga sometime between 1500 and 1000 BC. Scholars still debate exactly when Tonga…
View More TongaNiuafoʻou (meaning many new coconuts) is the northernmost island in the kingdom of Tonga. Other names for the island are Good Hope island and Tin Can island. It got the name “tin can” from its unusual method for sending and receiving mail from abroad. Because it has no wharf or…
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In this bonus mini episode, Marcus Orsi and Devlan Kruk gives Charles Epting of HR Harmer and Michael Cortese of NobleSpirit an inside look at the Museum of Philately, its purpose, its goals, and their plans for the Museum’s future. PODCAST Conversations with Philatelists YouTube
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Episode 43 – Exploring the Museum of PhilatelyCinematography is the art of motion-picture photography and filming either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock. Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor…
View More Thematic: CinematographyPakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the site of several ancient cultures, most notably the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, the oldest in South Asia, and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, the most extensive of the civilisations of the Old…
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Bahawalpur is a city located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Bahawalpur is the 11th largest city in Pakistan. Bahawalpur was a princely state of British India, and later Pakistan, that existed as an independent nation from 1947 to 1955. It was a part of Punjab States Agency. Bahawalpur state…
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The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by…
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Virtual Stampex was the first ever 72 hour virtual international stamp show. Bringing together internationally recognised, dealers, auction houses, societies and specialists from all over the globe, this event will allow you and fellow philatelists from around the world to come together to buy, sell, learn, explore, network, showcase and…
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