Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Richard Colberg, postal historian, President of the Lebanon Stamp Collectors Club, and longtime friend of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County presented on The Postal History of Lititz. Lititz, a town in northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1756 as Litiz. A post office was established there 50 years…

Dr. Charles J. DiComo, President of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County and the Empire State Postal History Society, shares a presentation entitled “Wafers Seals on U.S. Folded Letters and Covers, 1840 – 1860’s”. When writing letters was primarily reserved for Royalty, the custom was to seal letters with wax…

Join the Hong Kong Philatelic Society for a look at Hong Kong branch offices (part 2).

Talk about stamp collecting with Ted the Talking Stamp Collector. In 1914, the Stickney Rotary Press started a revolution in the production of postage stamps and for almost 50 years was the workhorse of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It also introduced a new field of collecting for philatelists…

Это одна из моих самых любимых серий марок.. именно с них начался мой осознанный интерес к филателии…У каждого парусника здесь своя невероятная история.. Например барку «Седов» уже больше ста лет.. только представьте сколько курсантов отправлялись в свою первую экспедицию на этом паруснике.. English subtitles: This is one of my favorite…

Únete a Mi Oficina para Ediciones del Siglo XIX de El Salvador (1867 – 1900) con Guillermo Gallegos.

Kim, the Chair of the Falkland Islands Philatelic Study Group, tells the story of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1955 – 1957 (FIDASE) overshadowed by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of the same time. A story of courageous pilots and air crew flying out of their base at…