(ok/cj-pcp-wm) MICHEL Southern Europe 2019 contains the popular collection areas around the Adriatic with the Apennine Peninsula and the area of former Yugoslavia. One of the last aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s was the renaming of the “former Yugoslav...
(ok/pcp-wm) Liechtenstein is celebrating in 2019the 300th anniversary of Liechtenstein. This refers to the 1719 unification of the two dominions of Schellenberg and Vaduz. This region became a principality directly linked to the emperor Charles VI. This created the...
(ok/pcp-wm) The collection of Swiss stamps and postal stationeries continues to enjoy great popularity at Switzerland and abroad. This is not only due to price stability of the Swiss franc, but also to the intelligent issuing policy of Swiss Post. This policy shows...
(ok/pcp-wm) With the MICHEL Overseas Volume 2, Part 1 Caribbean Islands A-J 2019/2020 from the MICHEL Overseas Series, the reworking of stamps from the Caribbean begins. This first Caribbean volume contains stamps from Anguilla to Jamaica. When revising this volume,...
(pcp-wm) Who wouldn’t like to take the Orient-Express from Paris to Constantinople? Whether it’s to read Agatha Christie’s novel “Murder in the Orient Express” or simply to enjoy this luxury train? If it weren’t for the price as a...
(PTT Lux./pcp-wm) As already announced, Luxembourg will host this year the Multilateral Stamp Collectors Associations of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein and Slovenia. The organisation is carried out by the FSPL with the active support of...
(PTT Lux./pcp-wm) In Germany and in many other countries, it would hardly be conceivable, but the “85th anniversary of the FSPL” (Fédération des Sociétés philatéliques du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg) is worth a block of stamps issued by the Post Office It...
(pcp-wm) The highly endowed CG Förderpreis Philatelie will be awarded in 2019for the seventh time. Christoph Gärtner’s aim was, in his words, “to promote philatelic research and make a contribution to the preservation of philatelic knowledge. We therefore...
(ow/pcp) The postal monopoly in the 19th century is a holy grail, carefully cherished and maintained by all German states. And yet in the German Empire there was a coexistence of a state imperial eagle and a private carrier pigeon. The gateway to this incursion of the...
(pcp-wm) For many philatelists and literary historians, every new issue of this 250-page magazine, which is for free four times a year, is always delighting. It offers insights into the history of philately, which can hardly be found elsewhere in such detail and...
(pcp/wm) Among Brazil’s most popular early stamp issues are the three so-called large Dom Pedro stamp series, from 1866-1878. These replaced the previously so-called bull’s, goats and cats- eyes. These replaced the previously so-called bull’s,...
(pcp/wm) In 1939, a suitable military address had to be found for the local work crews in the Engadine coming from different units, who were replaced from time to time by other soldiers. For this purpose, the Field Post Directorate chose field post n The numbering...
