In the early 1960s, a remarkable thing happened on the stamp counters of West and […]
Category: Philately
Philately, as most readers will know, is the study of postage stamps. While this blog in generally doesn’t delve into that aspects of stamps, but sometimes that subject is important to the overall story.
Secours National: Charity Stamps in a Divided France
Collectors who leaf through the French pages of a stamp album from the Second World […]
Navigation and Commerce: One Design for an Empire
A Stamp Problem with a Money Problem For most of the 19th century, France supplied […]
Dahomey et Dépendances: A Colony’s Full Name on a Stamp
From “Bénin” to Dahomey For most of the 1890s, mail from France’s holdings on the […]
The Railway Mail Service: Sorting the Nation’s Letters at 60 MPH
Some weeks back, I was looking at stamps and covers when I came across a […]
Hermes and the First Greek Stamps
When Greece issued its first postage stamps on October 1, 1861, it chose not a […]
CEPT: A Tower, a Dove, and 70 Years of Europe on a Stamp
If you’ve spent any time poking through European stamp albums, you’ve almost certainly run into […]