Air Mail Stamps: Made to Fly
I rather like Air Mail stamps of the world, used on airmail covers (of course), which logically is why they were issued. The sight of the familiar blue and red bordered airmail envelope emits a subliminal message, evoking images of ...
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary Map (1935)
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Austrian Empire Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
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Austrian Philatelic Society (APS)
The Austrian Philatelic Society is an international organization of some 250 members, one third of whom live outside the UK., including many in the USA and others in some 23 other countries. Their purpose is to cater for every aspect ...
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Austro-Hungarian Empire Map (1814-1914)
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Map (Lincoln Stamp Album 1899)
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Austro-Hungarian Navy (Video)
The once mighty Austro-Hungarian Navy. Pictures: 1. Coat of Arms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 2. BB SMS Viribus Unitis at Trieste 3. CA SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria-Theresia 4. CL SMS Novara 5. Emperor Francis Joseph I. 6. BB SMS Viribus Unitis 7. Austro-Hungarian Sailor 8. CA SMS Erzherzog ...
Friday, July 24th, 2009
German Annexation of Austria 1938 (Anschluß) (Video)
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Stamps of Austria: The First Issues (1850)
Following the establishment of the German-Austrian Postal Union of 1850, Austria introduced stamps in denominations of 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9 kreuzers for use throughout the Habsburg dominions. They were engraved by H. Tautenhayn and typographed at the State Printing ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Stamps of Greece: The First Postage Due Stamps (1875)
Greece’s first postage due stamps were issued on March 1, 1875. Curiously enough the Greek postal authorities had always had their postage due stamps printed in Vienna until 1902, although their ordinary issues had been printed at various places, but ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
WIPA 1933 Philatelic Exhibition
This piece of research began as a small article on the WIPA labels of 1933. But like ‘Topsy’, it grew! I was pleased to discover that the RSPV Library is fortunate in owning two of the very detailed WIPA catalogues ...
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
WIPA, the Vienna Exhibition: June 24th to July 9th, 1933
[Originally published in the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, April 1933.] We have already referred, on many occasions, to the forthcoming great international Stamp Exhibition which is be held in Vienna during the coming summer. Following the usual Continental custom, the ...
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
WIPA: Opening the Vienna Philatelic Exhibition (1933)
[The following has been extracted from The Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, June, 1933.] The "WIPA" is open. For two years the philatelic world has staggered under an avalanche of "Wipa" literature. One prospectus has followed another - Werbeschrift they call ...
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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