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  • Australia Philately: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt

  • Australia Philately: Edward John Eyre

  • Australia Philately: George Vancouver

  • Australia Philately: William Buelow Gould

  • Australia Philately: Macquarie Harbour – Sarah Island

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    Australia Philately: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt

    Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813 – c.1848), was a Prussian explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia. He arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1842. His aim was to explore inland Australia and he was hopeful of a government appointment in his fields of…

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    Australia Philately: Edward John Eyre

    Edward John Eyre (1815-1901) was born on 5 August 1815 at Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, England. At the age of 17, he had intended to enter the army, but at his father’s suggestion, he decided to emigrate to the Colony of New South Wales. Eyre, together with his aboriginal companion, Wylie, was…

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    Australia Philately: George Vancouver

    George Vancouver was born on 22 June 1757 in the seaport town of King’s Lynn in Norfolk, England. He was the sixth and youngest child of John Jasper Vancouver, a Dutch-born deputy collector of customs, and Bridget Berners. In 1771, at age 13, Vancouver entered the Royal Navy as a…

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    Australia Philately: William Buelow Gould

    William Buelow Gould (c.1803-1853) was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. While little is known of his early life, it is thought that he received artistic training under Irish painter, William Mulready, in London, and German lithographer, Rudolph Ackermann, in The Strand. It is also believed that he worked in Spode’s…

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    Australia Philately: Macquarie Harbour – Sarah Island

    Sarah Island (Langerrareroune, Toogee people) was located in Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen’s Land. The island was named after Sarah Birch, the wife of a prominent surgeon, merchant and shipbuilder in Hobart Town, Thomas William Birch. In January 1822, the Sarah Island penal station was established by Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell as…

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Kyle’s Stamps: Kyle’s Cabinets – Ep.1

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

This is the first in a video series where Kyle’s Stamps looks through his worldwide stamp cabinets. He has sorted many of his collections into these two behemoths.

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The Stamp Channel: PhilaTalk Episode 1 – Welcome to the World of Stamps

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

In The Stamp Channel‘s first episode of PhilaTalk, they introduce Bill to the multifaceted world of being a stamp collector, where Reinhard will give him a brief insight of how to become a philatelist in a short period of time.

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The Stamp Channel: Episode 4 – Beethoven

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

Heute wird es musikalisch. Widmen wir uns in dieser Folge doch gleich 5 Komponisten. Wer diese sind, was Bonn mit dem ersten Sonderblock der BRD zu tun hat, könnt ihr im Video sehen.

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The Stamp Channel: Episode 3 – Ballon Monté

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

In der heutigen Folge geht es nicht nur um eine Briefmarke, sondern gleich um ein ganzes Sammelgebiet: die Beförderung der Briefe mittels ” Ballon Monté”!

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Ourdadsstamps: The Printing of King Edward VII Stamps

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

In this episode, Ourdadsstamps discovers how De La Rue lost a printing contract that they had held for nearly 50 years, the problems facing Harrison & sons when they took over the printing and how the governments own printers at Somerset House got involved in printing stamps of King Edward…

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Ourdadsstamps: King Edwards VIII Stamps

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

In todays episode, Ourdadsstamps looks at the effect Edwards VIII‘s abdication had on the stamping world. We talk about the Post Office’s deception, the missing Australian stamps and the Falklands Islands cunning plan. Podcast Ourdadsstamps YouTube

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Hong Kong Philatelic Society: Japanese Occupation and Post-War Period (Part 1)

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

Join the Hong Kong Philatelic Society for the first part of their presentation on Japanese Occupation and Post-War Period. Three members, Richard Whittington, Sam Chiu and Simon Choi showed mail detained in Hong Kong and returned from Hong Kong before the Japanese Occupation.

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Hong Kong Philatelic Society: Japanese Occupation and Post-War Period (Part 2)

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Join the Hong Kong Philatelic Society for the second part of their presentation on Japanese Occupation and Post-War Period.

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Hong Kong Philatelic Society: Japanese Occupation and Post-War Period (Part 3)

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This two hour meeting from the Hong Kong Philatelic Society features Philippe Orsetti, Simon Choi and Ingo Nessel and their presentation on Japanese Occupation Branch Offices, the status of Da Luz covers and Post-war mails.

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Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.1 – French Stamps Marianne

thedigitalphilatelist 04/01/2022

An innovative approach to classifying, organizing, sorting and collecting stamps by selecting an interesting stamp at random and investigating the stamps history. Join Exploring Stamps for his first ever YouTube video!

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