Maria Theresa of Austria was born in Vienna on Thursday, May 13, 1717, as the second child of Emperor Charles VI. She was a descendant of the House of Habsburg and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolffenbüttel. Maria Theresa became one of the most influential...
The fact that the Belgian Postal Service issued a series of ten stamps for 'ordinary mail' to finance the United Nations pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels and several other international organizations was still there...
During the World Exhibition Expo 58 in Brussels, the Belgian Postal Service issued a series of 16 stamps for the United Nations. The issue was intended to co-finance the International Organizations pavilion at...
On my tenth birthday, I received my first Tintin comic book. Before that, I had already received a few other Suske and Wiske comic books, but I found the comic book about 'the rocket to the moon' many times more exciting. This comic book...
Belgium has many stamp issues featuring overprints or perforations that were applied unofficially. However, in most cases, these overprints and perforations were authorized by the Belgian postal service and retained their postage validity even after modification. Usually, the...
During my visit to Madrid for the international philatelic exhibition ESPAÑA 2000, I visited the Prado. The Prado is the national art museum of Spain and houses a large collection of paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries. And...
In 1935, the issuance of new stamps featuring an image of the Belgian coat of arms began. Collectors call this the 'Small Coat of Arms' type. Three values in this series were provided with advertising vignettes. But now the...
The National Society of Belgian Railways, NMBS for short, was founded in 1926. It was the successor to the Administration of State Railways, which was a department within the Ministry of Railways, Telegraphs and Post. In 1929, the first stamps were...
The United Nations had declared the period from June 1959 through the summer of 1960 the Year of the World Refugee. More than 70 countries heeded the UN's call to issue one or more stamps on April 7, 1960...
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