Stamp Oddities: “Wyatt Earp”
Friday, August 15th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Cartoons, Falkland Islands, Monty Wedd, Norway, Ships, United StatesMonty Wedd Published by kind permission of the artist. -
King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, and His Family (1899)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008: History, King Oscar II, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden"Historia" Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the royal family of Sweden in 1899, originally published in The Ludgate Magazine (1899). All Scandinavian collectors will be familiar with King Oscar portrait on the stamp of Sweden and this article should be ...
Aalesund
Monday, April 21st, 2008: Glossary, Local Posts, NorwayAalesund is a Norwegian fishing port where a local post was organised by H. S. Oyen between 1880 and 1884. A 3 øre stamp, printed in brown on various coloured papers in December 1880. The design (below) featured a codfish in ...
Arctic Air Mercy Flight Cinderellas
Friday, February 29th, 2008: Cinderellas, Norway, Polar Bears on StampsWilliam Cochrane. These stamps have been associated for many years with the diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska. Diphtheria serum was urgently needed, but since Nome was located 224 kilometres from the Arctic Circle, it was doubtful whether an airplane would make the ...
