Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Appalachian regions of the United States. The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States; it came into being in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William…
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…
Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artefacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is attributed to Robson Lowe, a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and…
