“Year of the Dog” on Stamps
Legend states that, when the great Buddha found enlightenment beside an old oak tree, he invited all the animals to his kingdom to celebrate. Only 12 animals arrived, and Buddha promptly rewarded them by naming each new year in honour ...
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Asia Map (1892)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Asia Map (Strand Album 1908)South America Map (1892)Central America Map (1892)
Asia Map (Strand Album 1908)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Africa Map (Strand Album 1908)Europe Map (Strand Album 1908)Oceania Map (Strand Album 1908)
Burt Todd and the Stamps of Bhutan
Mention the name of Burt Todd to the average collector or dealer and the odds are you will get a blank stare. They have never heard of him: Yet Burt Todd has had an influence on the philatelic world that ...
China and Japan Map (1899)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Chinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)Japan Map (1917)Japan Map (1965)
China Map (1935)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...China, Central and South Map (1935)Indo China Map (1886)China and Japan Map (1899)
China Philatelic Society of London
The China Philatelic Society of London embraces all aspects of Chinese Philately from the Municipal Posts of Treaty Ports of the last century, through to the present day issues of the People's Republic and Taiwan. If you enjoyed this article, you ...
Monday, May 19th, 2008
China, Central and South Map (1935)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...South America, Central Map (1935)South America – North and Central Map (1935)Germany, Central and Western Map (1935)
Chinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Austrian Empire Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)Switzerland Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)Spain and Portugal Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Cho-Khang, the Temple of Lhasa, Tibet Map (1902)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Temple of Heaven: the Stamps of ChinaTurbulent Tibet: Viewed from a Philatelic Standpoint (1910)The White Lion of the Mountains: A letter from Tibet, the Mysterious Land (c.1913)
Direction Markings: Re-Direction Markings Reconsidered
Charles A. Jones. First published in the Journal of the Hong Kong Study Circle, April 2007 No. 341 Introduction Names of ports, such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore, are occasionally found as unframed, straight-line markings on loose stamps, post cards, and ...
Dragons
A popular name for the first issue of Japanese stamps in 1871, which showed a dragon on either side of the value in the centre panel. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...PeacocksChinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and ...
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Evidence of China’s Oldest Post Office Unearthed
A letter written about 2000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China’s oldest post office at an historic site near the famous Dun-huang Mogao Grottoes along the ancient Silk Road. The letter written on a piece ...
Hong Kong Study Circle
The Hong Kong Study Circle was founded in 1951 to record and circulate information on the philatelic and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports. It is U. K.-based and regular meetings are held in London. Provincial meetings ...
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Indo China Map (1886)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...China Map (1935)China and Japan Map (1899)China, Central and South Map (1935)
Inter-Asian Philatelic Federation
The Inter-Asian Philatelic Federation, abbreviated as F.I.A.P., is a nonprofit and non-political federation of philatelic federation in Asia and Australia. Website: www.asiaphilately.com If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (F.I.P.)Philatelic FoundationChina Philatelic Society of London
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Japan Map (1917)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Japan Map (1965)China and Japan Map (1899)Chinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
Japan Map (1965)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Indonesia Map (1965)Philippines Map (1965)China and Japan Map (1899)
Native Paper
Locally made paper mainly used in some Indian States, Tibet and Oriental countries. The texture quality and thickness vary considerably. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Probable Issue of stamps for Tibet: A Chinese Foreign Post Office? (1909)Rice PaperResinised ...
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Peking – The Imperial City 1930 (Video)
A tour of the Chinese city of Peking (Beijing) in the 1930s. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Palestine, Egypt and India 1920s (Video)Peking Map (1875)Colonialism in 10 ...
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Peking Map (1875)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Peking – The Imperial City 1930 (Video)
Postal Beginnings in China: Early Rates & Arrangements (1911)
William Cochrane. There is an extraordinary interest in all things philatelic, related to China. In this account taken from The Postage Stamp (Feb 1911), we have valuable information regarding the early postal rates and arrangements from 1834 onwards. Postal historians of ...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Probable Issue of stamps for Tibet: A Chinese Foreign Post Office? (1909)
Given the worldwide media attention given to Tibet at present, I thought this very curious philatelic article on Tibet (originally published in The Postage Stamp October 9, 1909) might be of interest: If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Turbulent ...
Sea Transport of the Nations: Japanese Shipping (1935)
This is the first in a series of articles related to ships and shipping, originally appearing in Shipping Wonders of the World and published in 1935. Should any of our readers have any images of ships, especially mail ships, we ...
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Shanghai General Post Office Building
The Shanghai General Post Office Building is situated at the north end of the Sichuan Road Bridge, Shanghai, on the banks of the Suzhou Creek. It was built from 1922 to 1924 and designed by Stewardson & Spence. It is presently ...
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Shanghai Map (1933)
If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Shanghai General Post Office Building1933 Airmail Letter to a Belgian Missionary in China
Stamp Collecting in Indonesia (1976)
This article was originally published in the New Zealand "Stamp Collector", the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand (December, 1976). Almost everyone you meet in Indonesian office or business circles seems to collect stamps. There is keen ...
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Stamps of Hong Kong (China): Panda Issue (July 1st 2008)
Hong Kong recently issued a set of stamps featuring a pair of Giant Panda cubs. The promotional material reads: "Le Le and Ying Ying, a pair of giant panda cubs, arrived in Hong Kong in 2007 as a gift from ...
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Stamps of Thailand (Siam): The First Issues (1883)
Thailand’s first postage stamps appeared in August 1883, Waterlow and Sons recess-printing printing different designs and using different colours to denote the values: solot (½ att), att, sio (2 atts), sik (4 atts) and salung (6 atts). If you enjoyed this ...
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Stamps of Thailand: UNICEF Issue (1964)
The seventeenth anniversary of UNICEF was marked by 50 satangs and 2 baht stamps, issued in January 1964. The stamps reproduced the mother and child emblem of UNICEF and were designed and printed in photogravure by the Japanese Government Printing Bureau, ...
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Stamps of the Philippines: The First Issues (1854-74)
Adhesive stamps were adopted by the Philippine Islands in February 1854. The stamps were printed in Manila from locally engraved plates. All stamps up to 1874 portrayed Queen Isabella II of Spain and, as in the mother country, new designs were ...
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Taiwan’s Indigenous Stamp Exhibition (Video)
Taiwan's postal services, Chunghwa Post, issues a new set of stamps on the island's indigenous culture on the Indigenous People's Day. There are four stamps in the set featuring objects with patterns and designs from Paiwan, Rukai, Amis and Bunun ...
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Temple of Heaven: the Stamps of China
Some twenty years ago there was still a fairly large number of stamp shops in Stockholm, the Swedish capital. In one of the shops I discovered a set of three Chinese stamps (Scott # 131-3) which I found most attractive. ...
The Art of Mei Lan-Fang
Published by kind permission of the author and artist. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Hog MoneyThe Baseball MythStamp Oddities: “Wyatt Earp”
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Ichang Post-Office (1895)
The following article comes from The Stamp News (February and March, 1895) and should be of interest to collectors of China. For the following cutting we are indebted to the Chairman of the "Ichang Public Improvements Committee," who has, however, omitted ...
Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Postal History of Hong Kong
The Postal History of Hong Kong by Edward B. Proud is one of the latest on the Proud-Bailey series of books on the postal history of the British Colonies. It is a mammoth volume with well over 1,100 pages covering ...
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Republic Stamp Issues of China (1927)
First published in "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" (June 1, 1927) and written by Gordon A. Clayton. The Chinese have, for many centuries past, been in a very lethargic state of mind: their rulers have been able to overawe them, and rule ...
Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Stamps of China (1908)
[This excellent article was written by the noted philatelist Edward J. Nankivell and first published in The Postage Stamp, February 1908.] The Chinese Empire comprises what is termed China Proper, and the Dependencies of Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan, and Tibet. China Proper ...
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
The White Lion of the Mountains: A letter from Tibet, the Mysterious Land (c.1913)
William Cochrane. Whilst searching through our philatelic archives, I came across this fascinating letter from Tibet. It is a sad indictment of British Imperialism. Sent from a correspondent to Roessler’s Stamp News, originally published c.1913: If you enjoyed this article, you might ...
Tibet: Dull and Shiny Stamps of 1912-14
Richard A. Turton This article by EA Smythies FRPSL, was originally published in GSM (October 1956). Tibet is coming under a great deal of scrutiny currently and material relating to the stamps of Tibet should be of much interest. If you enjoyed ...
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Turbulent Tibet: Viewed from a Philatelic Standpoint (1910)
William Cochrane This fascinating article by D.B. Armstrong originally appeared in the British journal, The Postage Stamp (August 20, 1910). It is all the more fascinating, given that it is written in the dying days of the Imperial Chinese Empire. Such ...
Yuraku: The First Philatelic Journal of Japan (1914)
[This article first appeared in an English journal The Postage Stamp at the beginning of the First World War (5 September 1914). It should be of interest to all those interested in Japanese philately.] “A Japanese member of the Junior Philatelic ...
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Loading ...
