Naturally, airmail stamps cannot be missing from a Swedish stamp collection. However, these stamps often have higher face values than regular stamps. This is also the case with the 20 kroner airmail stamp issued on May 4, 1942. And which was also re-issued...
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...
Would you like something different than just filling in a pre-printed album? Then try starting a so-called 'thematic collection'. Stamps and cancellation marks lend themselves very well to this, and the themes are virtually inexhaustible. As an example, a...
A series of stamps that always fascinated me came from Greece. It was the first series of airmail stamps issued on October 20, 1926, in very distinctive, faded colors. Just as if the stamps had been colored with watercolors and very different from...
From 1935, the American aircraft manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company built a new type of aircraft, the DC-3, also known as the Dakota. In the Netherlands, the first DC-3 was purchased by KLM in 1936, which christened the aircraft the Ibis...
Letters subjected to censorship have always held my interest. This was also the case with the letter sent from Willemstad, Curaçao, to Ashington, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Addressed to the Manager of Lloyds Bank Ltd of this place, who to the north...
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