1933 Airmail Letter to a Belgian Missionary in China
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 ...
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Avant qu’il ne soit trop tard
[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 ...
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Belgian Study Circle
The Belgian Study Circle welcomes all postage stamp, stationery and Cinderella collectors/postal historians to their website. Also a great reference for Belgium history. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...British West Indies Study CircleWest Africa Study CircleIndia Study Circle
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Belgium Registered Airmail Letter to Gwalior – A Cover Story
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 ...
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Belgium – Letters Using High Value Stamps Issued 1929-1936
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 ...
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Belstamps.com
Belstamps is website portal dedicated to Belgian philately. On the site you will find: Belgian dealers Clubs and associations Philatelic events in Belgium Useful links towards other websites If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...StampListing.comPhilaGuideStamp-links.com
Focus on Forgeries: 1914 Merode Monument “Red Cross” Semipostals, Scott B28-30
Extracted from Australasian Stamps (November 1998) and written by Varro E. Tyler whose Focus on Forgeries is available as a 158 page illustrated book here. Because of the relatively low catalogue value of this attractive set of stamps, collectors are astonished ...
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company
The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company was incorporated in 1839 by Royal Charter, with a subsidy of ₤240,000. Supplemental charters extending the operations of the Company were granted at intervals, one in 1904 containing an ‘all British’ clause confining control of ...
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Why Poortman stamps printed on the Wifag press are shorter than those from the Stickney press
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 ...
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
WWI – Belgium Armoured Car Division in Russia
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 ...
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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