Revenue stamps of Iran 3rd Edition

Several well-known members of the revenue/fiscal stamp community pointed out that a new edition of the “Revenue Stamps of Iran” catalog had been published. This edition, the third, is larger than ever, with “742 full color pages with pictures of every stamp and many new rare documents”. The two volumes show many different types of […]

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Polish exile government stamps in Stamp Collector

In the September 2019 edition of “Stamp Collector” an article was published on the Polish government-in-exile stamps. The article titled “Poland’s exile issues” tells the story behind both the official exile stamps, produced by the London exile government, and the stamps as produced within wartime Poland for the underground mail.

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Annotated Non-Postal Stamp Catalogue of Andryvs Jūrdžs Foundation

Published in 2017 by the Andryvs Jūrdžs Foundation in Latvian (Latgalian) the “Annotated Non-Postal Stamp Catalogue of Andryvs Jūrdžs Foundation” by Zigurds Sviķis shows the non-postal stamps (also known as “cinderellas“) published by Latvians in exile between 1962 and 1992.

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Revenue Stamps of The Republic of Uruguay 1915-2005

Two of several catalogues published by Joe Ross are about the revenue stamps of Uruguay. This is the first of these volumes, in this case about the revenue stamps of Uruguay as issued between 1915 and 2005. Published in 2012, the catalogue contains 135 pages of information, lists stamps from 70+ categories of revenue stamps which […]

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How the Moluccans could have been part of the Korean War

These days the Korean alphabet is being exported abroad as a possible letterset for nations without their own set of characters. If that initiative is going to make it or not has to be seen, but the only minor success so far has been amongst a group in Indonesian, the Cia-Cia on the island of […]

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