Ken’s gateway to worldwide collecting was putting together an album of stamps used during World War I. He walks through the choices he made in putting this album together, including as little history as seemed necessary to make sense of those choices. Finally, he walks through his album and the…
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Join Allan Smith as he explores the philatelic impact of World War II on Greece. This presentation covers the three major stamp-issuing phases during the conflict: the Greek-Italian War of 1940, the Axis occupation (1941-1944), and the post-liberation period. Discover the unique stamps issued by Italy, Bulgaria, and Germany across…
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Ourdadsstamps looks at another small island, the most remote island on the planets – Tristan da Cunha. He looks at Official First Day Covers of the country’s first ever stamp. He also looks at the disastrous event which took place in 1961 and subsequent events.
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In this episode, Ted Talks Stamps will take you step-by-step through his process of laying out and printing pages for the United States Great Americans series of postage stamps, using the AlbumEasy album page creation program.
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Join JCPhilately for a look at the Sharjah Stamp Exhibition 2024.
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Richard Philatelist visited Türkiye in early November 2024 and embarked on some philatelic explorations!
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Join Tara Stewart in an in-depth exploration of the Fourth Bureau Definitive Issue, also known as the Regular Issue, of U.S. stamps produced between 1922 and 1930 by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Due to technological advancements and economic experimentation during this era, many stamps share identical images but…
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Umbrellas can seem rather mundane and tend only to get our attention when they annoy us by blowing inside out when we most need them – on a wet and windy day. However, both umbrellas and parasols in fact have a long and interesting history and culture which will be…
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Today we talk about how to identify Australia’s King George V stamps, which came out around the same time as the Kangaroo and Map stamps that we covered last week. This should be a simpler episode as this is a much simpler set to identify.
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Even Brande will share both previously told stories and family stories on how the German occupation of Norway on April 9, 1940 impacted mail delivery and communication during World War 2. During the war, multiple postal systems evolved, both official and unofficial. The Norwegian postal system provided both legitimate and…
View More RMPL Denver: Postal Service and Communication in Nazi-Occupied Norway 1940-1945