It is certainly not pleasant to discover that a beautiful first-day cover turns out to be fake. Therefore, it is always advisable, especially for expensive, old Dutch first-day covers, to have them examined by a recognized...
To replace the permanent stamps from 1951 depicting Queen Juliana 'en face', the first part of a series of stamps featuring images of historical buildings in Suriname, particularly in Paramaribo, was issued on April 1, 1961. On a...
Anyone visiting Berlin cannot miss it: a visit to the Gedächtniskirche. The Evangelical Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, as the church was called at the time, stands on Breitscheidplatz between Kurfüstendamm and Budapester Strasse in the Charlottenburg district. It is...
A stamp that piqued my curiosity as early as 1951 was one featuring an image of a clock with the caption 'Freiheitsglocke Berlin'. At that time, the internet did not yet exist for the general public, and I was dependent on written sources. Our...
The first Finnish stamp I was confronted with as a 10-year-old, just beginning stamp collector, was on a first-day cover I received from my father. And in the geography class I had in primary school, Scandinavia was one of...
A truly strange stamp issue took place on January 15, 1960, by the postal service of Suriname. A series consisting of four surcharge stamps featuring images relating to 'indigenous folk art'. The stamp catalog states: sold up to and including...
Collectors of Canadian stamps know that the Canadian Post is good at issuing unusual shapes of blocks and stamps. This is also true for the stamp issued on January 3, 2003, on the occasion of the Chinese Year of...
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