On January 21, 2026, Royal Mail issued a series of the Concorde to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first commercial flight. This time, a series consisting of 8 stamps and a S/S with 4 stamps. A...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Finland on May 3, 2023. He is attending an unannounced meeting of Northern European leaders there regarding the war in Ukraine. Among others, he speaks with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto about...
We are all in a partial lockdown during the second wave since October 2020. I will easily reach the 50th edition of the corona blog, given the diverse angles of COVID-19 and the tsunami of COVID-19 issuances worldwide. The experiences...
Many topics have been covered. Some based on current events and other blogs due to their relationship with COVID-19. Have you already built up a COVID-19 collection through your trading friends worldwide? In this 29th corona blog, the following will be discussed...
Due to the great distance between England and Australia and the slow overseas connections by sailing and steamships, a great need arose to establish a connection by air. The English-born Laurence Hargrave was one of...
Who doesn't know Neil Armstrong's famous quote: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind'? Did you watch the moon landing live on your black-and-white TV on July 20, 1969? We briefly follow the earlier flights...
In the early morning of Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the invasion of the beaches of Normandy began. It was the start of the end of the Second World War. How did this operation come about? How did the cooperation between the Allies proceed?...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) was established on 1 April 1918 by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The air force fell under the responsibility of the British Air Ministry, which three months earlier...
To replace the first series of Denmark's airmail stamps, a new series was issued on June 9, 1934, with the same values except for the 25 øre value, which was replaced by 20 øre. The stamps feature a Fokker aircraft...
The visual history of the 100-year existence of our national airport Schiphol comes to life in a varied way on the 100 Years Schiphol stamp sheet through photos, maps, and infographics. In an insightful manner, graphic designer Reynoud Homan shows us the...
The Second World War had profound consequences for postal services in many countries. The city of Saint-Nazaire, located in western France in the Loire-Atlantique department on the northern bank of the River Loire, had a seaport that was very...
A few years ago, we visited the town of Hanau, the birthplace of the Brothers Grimm. We were on our way home from Nuremberg and decided to make a small detour. The reason was that we wanted to visit the Museum of the...
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...
Collecting envelopes transported by airplane on the maiden flight to a new destination was a favorite pastime from the very beginning of aviation. During the Second World War, it was difficult to continue doing so,...
As a great lover of domestic cats—we have one ourselves—I collect stamps featuring images of cats. Not to create a 'collection' to visit stamp exhibitions, but simply out of passion. And only then do you see...
The Battle of Berlin lasted from late April to early May 1945. Russian forces had surrounded the city. The city was heavily defended by troops of the SS and the SA. Among the soldiers were many foreign, especially French...
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