When the postage stamp was introduced in India, it consisted of many states and principalities. One of those states was Gwalior, which was ruled by Maharaja Jayajira Rao Scindia from 1843 to 1886. The first stamps for Gwalior were originally Indian...
In Finland (Tampere, during Finlandia 2017), I received the 'Dirndl' stamp described by Hero Wit on the Blog on January 23, 2017, as a gift from a good Austrian stamp enthusiast. Along with it came the accompanying standard (neutral) first-day cover from the Austrian Post....
During a social evening of the Monster Stamp Society, a friendly club with enthusiastic members, a fellow collector pressed a small envelope into my hands with the question, 'Do you know these stamps?' It was an envelope containing three unperforated stamps...
A small town on Lake Lugano in Switzerland is named Campione d'Italia. The town is Italian, but is entirely surrounded by Swiss territory: an exclave. The town belongs to the Italian province of Como. This special circumstance arose in...
As a supplement to the first part, which described the territory of the General Government of Belgium, I came across an envelope franked with two 3-cent stamps on 3 Pfennig and postmarked in Haybes in northern France....
The first postcards with printed stamp value were issued and made available in the Netherlands from January 1, 1871. These postcards could be used to correspond in a cheaper way than by letter. The surface area of a postcard was, of course, much smaller...
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