Stamps of Latvia: The First Issues (1918)
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008: Baltic States, Europe, First Issues, Overprints, Russia, Stamp ProfilesIssued from December 1918, the wheat-ears and sunrise emblem for this series was designed by Ansis Zuhrul and lithographed by A. Schnackenburg of Riga. Shortage of paper led to surprising materials being used. At first the stamps were printed on ...
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 ...
Russian Post (По́чта Росси́и)
Thursday, June 5th, 2008: Postal Administrations, RussiaRussian Post (Russian: По́чта Росси́и), a founding member of the Universal Postal Union, was formed in 1874. In 1902 Chief Postal Service was made part of the Internal Affairs Ministry and in 1917 under the Provisional Government it became part ...
The White Lion of the Mountains: A letter from Tibet, the Mysterious Land (c.1913)
Monday, April 28th, 2008: Asia, Bhutan, India, Russia, TibetWilliam Cochrane. Whilst searching through our philatelic archives, I came across this fascinating letter from Tibet. It is a sad indictment of British Imperialism. Sent from a correspondent to Roessler’s Stamp News, originally published c.1913:
Stamps of Finland: Issue of 1885, Cancellations
Friday, February 22nd, 2008: Finland, Russia, Tsarist RussiaWilliam Cochrane. This fascinating article derives from a paper by E. Philpot-Crowther, read before the Dundee Philatelic Society, on 20th October, 1910. The stamps of this issue show a wonderful range and variety of cancellation marks, some of which are extremely rare ...