Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Ночью 27 мая 1905 года Вторая тихоокеанская эскадра встретилась с силами противника. Было это недалеко от острова Цусима. Так началось сражение, которое вошло в историю. В этом бою «Аврора» потеряла своего капитана Евгения Егорьева. Командование тогда принял старший штурман Прохоров. На рассвете 28 мая доктор Кравченко, который всё это время…

The second of four US cover albums from the seven carton Apfelbaum collection Kyle’s Stamps had purchased. Covers from NASA, ships, trains, airmail, etc.

Today is the day that Bill was looking forward to the whole week: He will receive his first very own collection that Reinhard put together for him for a starting budget of 1000€.

Join Caledonian Philatelic Society for a selection of postal history material from among other places, Sardinia, Tuscany and Venice, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Cape of Good Hope, with interesting background to the stamps and covers and in some cases the writers.

In todays podcast Ourdadsstamps finds out who Dorothy Wilding was and how she helped create one of the most iconic images on British stamps. From her early beginnings in Bond Street, to her receipt of the Royal warrant, and on to her photographs of Queen Elizabeth II which were to…