The following article was first published in Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal (September 1927). The postage stamps of Syria offer a wide and interesting field of study to the general collector as well as to the most minute and exacting of philatelic ...
The first stamps of Israel were inscribed in Hebrew ‘Doar Ivri’ (Hebrew Post) and featured coins issued by the Jewish authorities at the time of the first and second Jewish revolts against the Romans, or in the reign of the ...
William Cochrane. There is a certain romance about Zeppelins. The famous pop band Led Zeppelin took its name from the airship. Z 127 Graf Zeppelin was a large rigid airship (or dirigible). It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand ...
Used by British forces in the Middle East during World War II. A special form was used for the message and the recipient’s address. This, when completed, was autographed and the negative flown to the appropriate post office. Here a ...
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