“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
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
Album Weeds: Japan 1871 – 1876 (1906)
Since the second edition of this work appeared, large numbers of excellent, engraved forgeries have been put on the market. Some, though not all, of these forgeries bear upon them, in various parts of the design, two microscopic characters, signifying ...
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
By Rail in Japan (1898)
This article gives a fascinating insight into railway activities and life in Japan at the close of the nineteenth century. Originally published in "The Railway Magazine" in March 1898, the author D.T. Timins looks at what to an occidental eye must ...
Monday, March 15th, 2010
China and Japan Map (1899)
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Chinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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
Handling of Overseas Mails (1936)
This extremely informative article originally appeared in Shipping Wonders of the World in 1936. It explains in some detail the carriage of letters and parcel posts by ships and their ports of call in the 1930s. If you enjoyed this article, ...
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Japan Map (1917)
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Japan to Australia by Airmail in Early Postwar Years
Correspondence between Japan and Australia resumed reasonably soon after the end of WWII. The earliest item I have is a Stationery card dated 17 September 1946, in which a penpal states "Now the war is over & we are privileged ...
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Peacocks
A popular name for George VI stamps of Burma overprinted by the Japanese with the peacock design, the Japanese Royal emblem. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...DragonsBritanniasPostage Stamps of Antigua (1856-1962)
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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
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
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
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