World Postcard Day 2021 is on the 1st of October. therefore Stamps with Sara shares her experience of Postcrossing. Note: English subtitles available.
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Commemorating one year of German occupation of Poland and the founding of a general governing body, this semi-postal stamp was issued to raise funds for winter relief.
View More Gramps’ Stamps: First Day Covers – Poland Under German Occupation Stamp (1940)The Montagu Beach Hotel was built in 1926 by Leon Walton Young and had 200 rooms for accommodation. It was an elaborate pink building with its own private beach and lake on fifty acres of land. It was the first hotel in Nassau to offer native entertainment. In the late…
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Michael and Charles are joined LIVE by Isobel Klempka and Suzzane Rae, Chairman of the PTS, while they are on the floor of Stampex 2021!
View More Conversations with Philatelists: Live with Isobel and Suzanne at Stampex 2021The Gill Hotel chain acquired the British Colonial Hotel and invested $1,000,000 to ‘modernize and improve’ the hotel. The hotel was closed for the summer of 1956 to complete the upgrade and re-opened later in the year. Some of the facilities available included the Hong Kong Room, La Cage Supper…
View More Bahamas Philately: British Colonial Hotel – A Gill HotelThe Ocean Club, located on Paradise Island, was originally developed as the private estate of a Swedish industrialist, Axel Wenner-Gren. For more than two decades he created a magnificent estate with intricately landscaped gardens inspired by those at the Chateau de Versailles. Wenner-Gren christened it Shangri-La. In 1962 Huntington Hartford…
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Come explore Singapore’s early philatelic history with Exploring Stamps, which included the beautiful stamps of the Straits Settlements. He follows a postcard through South Asia, learns about a Merlion, admire Singapore’s incredible skyline and more.
View More Exploring Stamps: Season 4/Ep.3 – Singapore & Straits Settlements Stamps
The Gold Coast was a British Crown Colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957. By 1901, the British had established a colony incorporating all of the Gold Coast, with its kingdoms and tribes considered a single unit. The British exploited and…
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Postal Pleasures Presents: Ghana Stamps – Goodwill Haul Bag 2 – Diana, Monkeys, Trains, Christmas, & More
View More Postal Pleasures: Ghana Stamps – Goodwill Haul Bag 2A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television,…
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