British Honduras
British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1862 to 1964. British Honduras was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas. The colony grew out of the Treaty of Versailles (1783) between Britain and Spain, which…
View More British HondurasZany About Stamps: Solomon Islands 1992 Guadalcanal Anniversary Aerogramme
Solomon Islands 1992 Guadalcanal Anniversary aerogramme with previously unrecorded missing colour error. Insights into how it was determined which colour was missing plus a look at the 1956 stamp which inspired the aerogramme’s design. Check out the Zeboose online store HERE.
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Peter’s Real Royal Mail: The Death of a King and Father
It’s the story of a very personal and emotional letter written shortly after the death of King George VI. The sender is Princess Margaret (1930-2002), his younger daughter.
View More Peter’s Real Royal Mail: The Death of a King and FatherExploring Stamps: Collecting Perfins
Have you ever found stamps in your collection with tiny little pin-holes through them? These are Perfins, an anti theft mechanism for companies and organizations to prevent employees from stealing stamps. Watch the video from Exploring Stamps below to learn more.
View More Exploring Stamps: Collecting PerfinsFederation of South Arabia
The Federation of South Arabia was an organization of states under British protection in what would become South Yemen. It was formed on 4 April 1962 from the 15 protected states of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South. On 18 January 1963 it was merged with the Crown…
View More Federation of South ArabiaThematic: Orient
The Orient is a term for the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe. It is the antonym of Occident, the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the continent of Asia, loosely classified into the Near…
View More Thematic: OrientThematic: Comics
Comics is a medium used to express narratives or other ideas through images, usually combined with text. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. The size and…
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Zany About Stamps: Introduction
It’s in the title. Which could be expanded to Zany About Stamps, Proofs, Covers, Artwork and Related Stuff. Or changed to Stamp Collecting. Or even Philately – The Hobby of Kings, The King of Hobbies. Or something equally vacuous. Sassy and succinct it is… Zany About Stamps.
View More Zany About Stamps: IntroductionCollecting: Perfin
In philately, a perfin is a stamp that has had initials or a name perforated across it to discourage theft. The name is a contraction of perforated initials or perforated insignia. They are also sometimes called SPIFS (Stamps Perforated with Initials of Firms and Societies). Blogs Arge-lochungen Canadian Perfin Officials…
View More Collecting: PerfinCollecting: Museums
A postal museum is a museum dedicated to the display of objects relating to the postal service. A subcategory of postal museums are philatelic museums, which focus on philately and postage stamps. Facebook Delphos Museum of Postal History National Museum of African Americans on Stamps Websites Athens Philatelic and Postal…
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