Belgium Registered Airmail Letter to Gwalior – A Cover Story
Saturday, July 19th, 2008: Belgium, India, Indian States, Postal HistoryMichael Barden. 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 ...
Edwin Cradock Nowell: An Extraordinary Tasmanian Clerk
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Postal History, TasmaniaMaurice Mishkel. Edwin Cradock Nowell A series of 7 covers addressed to Edwin Nowell in Hobart from January 1850 to February 1860, from South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania appeared in a Tasmanian stamp auction in April 2005. The covers were ...
Blatter and the Bahamas
Monday, June 30th, 2008: "NSW Philatelist", Bahamas, British West Indies, De La Rue, Overprints, Postal History, SwitzerlandRussell W. Stern. Lot 142 in the Postal History Auction run by Yorkshire Cover Auctions, which closed 5 June 2004, appeared to have a familiar address (see for example NSW Philatelist, Article 449, November 1996). And yes, it was another Blatter ...
War-time Reporter Meets General MacArthur
Friday, June 27th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Military, Postal History, World War IIMaurice Mishkel. The newspaper wrapper that prompted this research is postmarked PAID AT SYDNEY/-14 MY 43/ N.S.W. and is addressed to Lewis Sebring, Tribune Herald Newspaper, USA Army Hdqrs., (General Douglas MacArthur), AUSTRALIA. This was sent by "Reveille", Official Organ, R.S.L ...
Airposts and their Stamps (1921)
Thursday, June 19th, 2008: Airlines, Airmails, Flight, Postal HistoryWilliam Cochrane. This article is probably one of the first airmail articles, certainly of any length, to be published in a philatelic journal. It was first published in Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly (January, 1921) from a paper read by Major RS Archer, ...
WWI - Belgium Armoured Car Division in Russia
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008: Belgium, Censored mail, Field Post, Military, Postal History, Postcards, Postmarks, RussiaMichael Barden. 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 ...
The New York City Post Office: 1600s - 1870s
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008: Post Offices, Postal History, United StatesFirst published by T. B. Thorpe Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (October 1871). There seems to be no preserved evidence that for very many years after the settlement of what is now known as the city of New York there was any ...
An 1890 NSW Postcard
Monday, June 16th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, Postal History, PostcardsDavid Benson and Russell W. Stern. David Benson came across a 1890 NSW 1d. postcard which he thought might be an interesting item for recording in the New South Wales Philatelist. The front and reverse of the postcard are illustrated in ...
1794 Letter from Prisoner-of-War in Cuba
Friday, June 13th, 2008: Cuba, France & Colonies, Military, Naval, Postal History, Ships, Spain & ColoniesGeoffrey Lewis. Since 2002, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been the location of various combatants captured in Afganistan. When was the start of Cuba’s association with prisoners-of-war? Go back 104 years to 1898. Cuba was the scene of the Spanish-American War. A ...
Self-adhesive stamps of Tonga
Thursday, June 12th, 2008: Pacific Islands, Postal History, TongaRodney A. Perry. Were these weird stamps ever used? The short answer to the question is ‘Very much so'. I have recently seen a large holding of commercial covers of Tonga dating from the 1960s and bearing many different frankings from ...
Pan Am Airlines: As Luck Would Have It
Monday, June 9th, 2008: "NSW Philatelist", Airlines, Airmails, Cuba, Philatelic Publications, Postal History, United StatesEd Wolf. J.E. Whitbeck was a worried man. He felt his job was on the line before he had a chance to prove himself. Here it was October 19 1927 and disaster was about to strike.
Australian Coronation Contingent, 7 May 1937 at Crowning of KGVI (England)
Monday, May 19th, 2008: Air Force, Australia & Dependencies, Naval, Postal HistoryMaurice Mishkel. This cover was addressed to No 1157. L.A.C. Palmer, T.P., R.A.A.F. Detachment, Australian Coronation Contingent, Australia House, London W.C. 2, England, and the two mauve 9d ‘Kangaroo on Map of Australia’ stamps were postmarked with an ASHFIELD/ 1 AM/ ...
Ernest A. Kehr, Philatelist & Prolific Writer About Stamps (USA)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Philatelic Biographies, Postal History, United StatesMaurice Mishkel. The following item appeared on Ebay Australia and was withdrawn by the vendor prematurely: “Advertisement Cover produced by The Royal Horticultural Society of NSW to promote the World's Buckjumping Championship held in Sydney during the Royal Easter Show from ...
Postmarks from the Past
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008: Links, Postal HistoryPostmarks From the Past is dedicated to writing about and preserving Michigan postal history, in particular those post offices which have closed.
An Air Mail Pioneer: The Story of Qantas Empire Airways
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008: Airmails, Australia & Dependencies, Postal HistoryHarold G. D. Gisburn. The possibilities of the aeroplane as a swift means of communication throughout the remote parts of Australia were envisaged during the first world war, and in 1919 shortly after the termination of hostilities, the Commonwealth Government commissioner ...
The Last Cancellation from Colone Cosme
Monday, April 21st, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Paraguay, Postal History, PostmarksRonald M Lee. I am sure most of us have an accumulation of papers we intend to study in more detail when time permits. Recently I began looking at such a pile in a corner of my study and discovered a ...
Le Style francais
Thursday, April 17th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, France & Colonies, Investment, Postal History, Postal StationeryRodney A Perry. Something of a stroll down memory lane for me this issue, and the first occasion on which I have featured covers from a foreign country. The article is prompted as a consequence of having recently sorted and classified ...
Captain Ronald Edgar Smith, 2nd Son of James “Philosopher” Smith
Friday, April 11th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Military, Postal HistoryMaurice Mishkel. A large number of covers have been seen at stamp auction sites addressed to Westwood Forth, Ulverstone Forth or Ulverstone either to Lieutenant, Captain or Major R.E. Smith over the past 3 years, but none compare with the present ...
The Byrnes Bassett Shipping Line
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008: Australia & Dependencies, Australian States, New South Wales, Postal History, Queensland, Shipping LinesBernie Beston FAP. FRPSL. Following the opening up of the Moreton Bay District to free settlers in 1842, the influx of migrants and squatters increased rapidly. As the best grazing land nearest Brisbane was taken up, adventurous pastoralists scoured further and ...
Postalhistory.org
Monday, April 7th, 2008: Links, Postal HistoryIf you collect postal history, or are interested in discovering more about this fascinating branch of philately, you will find information here to help you.