The Philatelic Database – Archive of Stamp Collecting Articles

The message from Danzig on the back of this card is a simple enquiry: “why has it been so long since we have heard any news from you?” The writer’s anxiety may well have been heightened when the card came back over three months later as the addressee could not be traced.

The Anglo-German boundary of 1890, had done much to separate many of the tribes of West Africa…

Chess is the oldest of all games of pure mental skill – those in which the element of chance does not enter. Further, no game has been as influential in cultural history as chess. I was surprised that the ATA Topical Association chess check list comprised four full pages and featured stamps from practically every [...]

This article was originally published in the “Daily Telegraph” (UK), August 4, 1911. I have read a number of articles on these early experimental aerial flights but this one is interesting because it notes the use of “aerial” post boxes located in London department stores and firms.

The following article was written by Oscar Karl Goll and first published in “Stamps” (April 6, 1935).

Recently I noticed two British New Guinea/Papua items offered in the Cherrystone Auction 20 Jan 2005. The question that these items gave rise to was about the status of these so-called proofs…

An account by “Uncle Dan” Drumheller (Daniel M. Drumheller), who rode the route. Extracted from Stamp Collectors’ Fortnightly (July, 1921).

This article, originally published in the “New Zealand Stamp Collector” (June 1973), gives an interesting history of the former Wellington Post Office, as it was about to be pulled down.

This is a rather rare article originally published in an Australian journal “Sea, Land and Air” in 1918.

It is a fascinating look at an attempt to establish airmail services from England to Australia. It would be another sixteen years (1934) before a service was established.