par Estelle Leclere | Jan 16, 2012 | Articles
David Feldman gave his point of view to the South China Morning Post on January 16, 2012, on the philately development in Hong Kong. He says that stamps are less popular in HK, but it is still philatelic trading hub. More articles
par Estelle Leclere | Nov 23, 2011 | Articles
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par Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articles
The second Danish stamp issued was the 2 R.B.S. (Rigsbankskilling) value, which first appeared on April 28, 1851, nearly a month after the 4 R.B.S. Its purpose was, at first, to pre-pay delivery of mail « within the ramparts » (i.e. within the city walls) of...
par Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articles
British Africa has its fair share of immensely rare stamps: the primitive manuscript surcharges of Uganda and of the Oil Rivers high values, some of the Boer War local provisionals, the scarcer Madagascar « missionaries » all jump to mind. But the regularly issued...
par Estelle Leclere | Nov 7, 2011 | Articles
In 1921 through 1923, the current Cyprus definitives picturing King George V were issued on paper watermarked multiple crowns and script « CA. » De La Rue, the printers, had prepared for a Half Piastre value, but it was apparently not ordered, and perhaps only one...
par Estelle Leclere | Sep 21, 2011 | Articles
The first issues of Europe during the Classic period started as a novelty, as news of the « Penny Black » and its financial success spread quickly, to a subject for debate and law-making (to define an adhesive stamp’s uses and context), to essays and proofs and...
