The Philatelic Database – Archive of Stamp Collecting Articles

This is a fascinating article written by William C. White, an American who was trying to obtain an interview with Adolf Hitler prior to his rise to power in 1933.

The Anglo-German boundary of 1890, had done much to separate many of the tribes of West Africa…

Chess is the oldest of all games of pure mental skill – those in which the element of chance does not enter. Further, no game has been as influential in cultural history as chess. I was surprised that the ATA Topical Association chess check list comprised four full pages and featured stamps from practically every [...]

On January 29, 2009, Post Sweden issued a most interesting set of stamps featuring classic cars. The issue basically comprises a booklet containing five different designs for first-class inland mail and a 12-kronor coil stamp for international letters.

Originally published in “Peoples of All Nations”, by Educational Book Company, London 1923.

This article was originally published in the “Daily Telegraph” (UK), August 4, 1911. I have read a number of articles on these early experimental aerial flights but this one is interesting because it notes the use of “aerial” post boxes located in London department stores and firms.

In the 1970s I spent most of my summer holidays in the south of France. At that time Radio Andorra was a major radio station in that part of the world dishing out a variety of popular music with a distinctly Spanish flavour. I tuned in on a daily basis but never realized my dream of visiting the tiny principality nestled high up in the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France…

Originally published in “Shipping Wonders of the World” in 1937, this comprehensive article features detailed information on the US Naval fleet of the time.

The following article was written by Oscar Karl Goll and first published in “Stamps” (April 6, 1935).