Below you will find articles about Ukraine. Or click here to view stamps on the subject Ukraine in the catalog.
In 2005, the Portuguese Paulo Magalhäes (a lover of sending and receiving postcards) developed a website that provides participants with random addresses to send a postcard to other postcrossers anywhere in the world. The card recipient registers the card delivery...
Collecting street art stamps is not only a fascinating hobby for philatelists, but also for art lovers. They offer a unique insight into the culture and social issues of the time in which they were made. Street art, once considered...
Since we last featured the topic of lighthouses in 2019 there have been many great issues for the collector. Here we've made a selection from those produced in the three years up to and including 2022. Naturally if you visit...
Lithuania 2004 The oldest known funicular is in Hohensalzburg Castle, Austria and it’s known as the Reisszug. It is used to transport people and cargo from the Nonnberg nunnery to the castle. The Reisszug has been in operation since the late...
Mongolia 1965 The fish depicted on the stamp shown, issued in 1965 by Mongolia, is the Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser Baeri). Sturgeons are among the largest fish on Earth, can grow up to eight metres long and weigh as much as...
The six species of birds on the Garden Birds in the 2019 Netherlands stamp sheetlet are common in the Netherlands. But no matter how "normal" they seem, thanks to illustrator Michelle Dujardin, they come to life on the stamps in...
East Germany (DDR) 1981 - Dabel, Pahrenz, Dresden-Gohlis, Ballstadt The Deutsche Post (DP) was the state-owned postal and telecommunications monopoly of what was - from 1949 until the reunification of Germany on the 3rd of October 1990 - the German Democratic Republic...
If you’re wondering what this photograph has to do with philately keep reading! Australia has hundreds of abandoned grain silos dotted around the country. Many people think they are a bit of a blot on the landscape but the boring...
In 1867, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established. It encompassed the territory of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. However, the territory was much larger. It further consisted of the present-day territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and parts of...
They are regularly offered for sale. Series of stamps titled 'Odessa Hunger Issue 1922'. Both perforated and unperforated. And at what prices? I have seen them from €6,50 to €15 for a series of unperforated stamps and €10 for a...
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