I purchased this letter from a UK dealer, when he was in Melbourne before the last International stamp exhibition, which was later held in Sydney. The destination was rare, it was early airmail and it seemed like it may have an ...
[The following is an extract from Michael Barden's upcoming book, Avant qu’il ne soit trop tard] Chapter 1 - Introduction, setting the scene It is 63 years since the Van Acker issue of stamps and postal stationery surcharged -10% occurred. Some background ...
The sender ostensibly mailed this envelope to his wife in India. Earlier in the 1930's the Belgian postal authorities had frowned on self addressed post-restante letters, as they were always out of pocket from the return journey. This assertion is ...
With the advent of longer distance airmail routes during the latter part of the 1920s and into the 1930s, higher value definitives were required than had been available hitherto. 5 & 10 Fr values of both the small Montenez and ...
The engraved portion (effigy) of stamps printed from the new Swiss Wifag press in 1951 were soon observed to be some 0.4 - 0.5 mm shorter than those previously printed using the old US made Stickney press. Notwithstanding the different ...
In August 1914, Belgian Lieutenant Charles Henkart, put his two armoured Minerva cars at the Army's disposal. Cockerill & Co (Engineers) in Hoboken had added some armour plating and a Hotchkiss machine gun to each as shown below. Despite previous ...
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