Greenland is not only the largest island in the world but was also the scene of a scandal that was to occupy the philatelic world for a long time. Find out what this is all about in our new video from The Stamp Channel.
View More The Stamp Channel: Episode 7 – Greenland
The Caledonian Philatelic Society and Hugh Osborne shows mail to and from South Georgia including items dating from before the establishment of a Post Office on the island, early mail and bisects and overprints due to shortages, whaling mail, censored mail from WW1 and WW2, expedition mail and concluding with…
View More Caledonian Philatelic Society: South Georgia Postal History – the First 100 Years
In todays episode, Ourdadsstamps looks into the stories behind famous, and not so famous, errors in stamps. They talk about the Treskilling Yellow, another candidate for the Worlds most expensive stamps; the missing virgin of 1867; and the extraordinary antics of the Postmaster General in Malta.
View More Ourdadsstamps: Mistakes on Stamps (Part 1)Details Subject: Lusaka Cathedral Designer: Gabriel Ellison Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd. Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: None Perf: 13.5 x 14.5 Gum: Gum Arabic (original printing) Polyvinyl Alcohol (reprint) Cylinders: 1A (Black), 1A (Blue), 1A (Red), 1A (Yellow), 1A (Copper) 1A (Blue), 1A (Red), 1A (Yellow), 1A (Copper), 2A (Black) Sheet: 10 x10 Quantity: Reprint: 22 April 1969…
View More Zambia Philately: 1968 New Currency Definitives – 1n Lusaka Cathedral
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…
View More Introvert’s Lair: The Russian Cruiser ‘Aurora’
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.
View More Kyle’s Stamps: Cover Album No.2
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€.
View More The Stamp Channel: PhilaTalk Episode 6 – The First Collection
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.
View More Caledonian Philatelic Society: A Philatelic Dabbler’s Favourite Pages
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…
View More Ourdadsstamps: Who was Dorothy Wilding?The 3d stamp was originally intended to be two colours but Malawi requested the addition of a third colour – green, for the leaves. Groundnuts were purchased by the designer studio to study the shell formation and devise the cutaway picture of a nut. The image is based on a…
View More Malawi Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 3d Groundnuts