Postal history of Syria (III)
Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War, when the Turks were defeated. Until that time, stamps of the Ottoman Empire were used in Syria. At the Treaty of Paris in 1918, it came...
Inflation in Germany in 1923 (part 5)
In between the production of stamps in billions of Marks, redundant stamps in millions of Marks were overprinted because there was a greater need for stamps of 5 billion and 10 billion Marks due to the sometimes complicated rates....
Inflation in Germany in 1923 (part 2)
In Part 1, we saw that the stock of stamp sheets from issues from January 1922 up to and including April 1923 had been exhausted. In order to quickly obtain new stamps, it was decided to use the old printing plates...
Inflation in Germany in 1923 (part 1)
Inflation in Germany resulting from the enormous amounts of reparations that had to be paid to the victors after the First World War and the lagging revenues, particularly from exports, led to a devaluation of money that became visible in 1922...
Transvaal (part 2)
After the First Boer War, the South African Republic was reborn. This was called the Second Period. The stamp with the overprint ONE PENNY of August 1882 and the subsequent series of 1883 were replaced by an entirely new series of stamps. The series...
Push-up champion?
No, no morning exercises this time, but a flood of stamps with overprints from Guyana. Because my wife collects stamps and postal items with a 'Princess Diana' theme, she came across two stamps from this country featuring images of flowers but with...
St. Helena, Victorian period (continued)
After the many 'overprints' and reprints of the large-format stamps featuring Queen Victoria, a new series of stamps with her image in a small format appeared from 1890 onwards. The design of the stamps was identical to the op...
The Belgian occupation of Malmédy
The canton of Malmédy comprised the post offices of Amel (Amblève), Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach, Eisenborn 1, Isenborn (town), Ligneuville, Malmédy, Manderfeld, Montenau, Oudlier, Recht, Rocherath, Saint-Vith (Sankt-Vith), Schonberg, Sourbrodt (Surbot), Weismes (Waimes), Weywertz (Weywerce), and Xhoffraix. The Losheim post office also belonged to the...
Danish postage stamp with overprint (part 2)
Tenth Danish Philatelist Day from September 2 to 6, 1938, celebrated with a stamp exhibition in Slagelse. The stamp with the overprint DFU FRIM-UDST 19 38 in red appeared on September 2, 1938. In addition, not every stamp in the sheet...
Danish postage stamp with overprint (part 1)
Stamps with overprints for a philatelic event were unknown in Denmark until 1937. However, two issues subsequently appeared in succession, one in September 1937 and the other in September 1938 (see Part 2). They are two simple stamps,...
Fraudster unmasked
As a collector of mail from Great Britain, it is always nice to receive an envelope with something special about it. At first glance, that specialness is not striking. A registered piece from Preston (Lancashire) sent on 5...
Collecting prints, a hobby of its own.
Everyone knows that stamps are issued bearing the name of the issuing country and the value. Also that Great Britain does not include a country name on the stamps, but simply uses the image of the reigning monarch. And the value is...
