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 GroundnutsThe 1d image was one of several Kodachrome transparencies taken by D. M. Arnall for this series. The image was of a specimen mounted on a wooden background and then adapted by Victor Whitely at Harrisons and Sons Ltd. Details Subject: Chambo Designer: Victor Whitely Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London…
View More Malawi Philately: 1964 Definitive Series – 1d ChamboThe Madras, also called the Jip or Jupe, is the national dress of the countries of Dominica, Saint Lucia, and French West Indies. The madras is the traditional dress of the women and girls of Dominica and St. Lucia, and its name is derived from the madras cloth, a fabric…
View More Dominica Philately: 1963 Definitive Series – 14c Traditional Costume (Type A)Goodwill was established in the 1950s and was Roseau’s main residential area. It is named after the Goodwill Estate of James Woodbridge, a slave owner on Dominica, and is one of the administrative parishes of Saint George. Details Designer: S Scott Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd. Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: St Edwards Crown…
View More Dominica Philately: 1968 Associated Statehood – 48c Goodwill