For the purpose of international trade between African countries and Great Britain, there were eight post offices in Morocco which, under the supervision of the main post office in Gibraltar, used British stamps for correspondence. The stamps bore an impression of the...
An area that is ignored by many stamp collectors in Belgium is the pre-cancellation. There are two types: the hand-roll pre-cancellation and the so-called typographic pre-cancellation. The first type is, as the name suggests, applied by hand. This...
The Reichsmark, which was still in use after the Second World War, was converted into the Saarmark from June 16, 1947. The new currency was only available in banknotes, and Reichsmarks could be exchanged on a 1-to-1 basis...
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....
The Falkland Islands consist of the East Falkland and West Falkland Islands. In addition, there are more than 700 smaller islands. The Falkland Islands are located approximately 480 kilometers off the coast of South America in the South Atlantic Ocean. Since 1833, the islands have been administered by the British.
Faridkot was a principality in the former Empire of India (also known as British India) with the capital of the same name. Around 1900, the principality had approximately 120.000 inhabitants. It was part of the Indian state of Punjab. The principality issued its own postage stamps starting in 1878...
Postage stamps from the classical period of Suriname are primarily known for the many overprinted stamps that were issued. The fact that a postage stamp is overprinted with a new face value because the original value no longer fits within the tariff scheme comes across as very...
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