Exile stamps – Korean Revenue Stamps

Polish exile government stamps in Stamp Collector

August 28, 2019August 27, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg1437Leave a Comment

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.

How the Moluccans could have been part of the Korean War

September 20, 2012February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg3630Leave a Comment

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 […]

Ukrainian Camp and Exile issues catalog

September 19, 2012February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg33182 Comments

After having bought quite a few specialist catalogs I recently received another compliment to my every growing selection of exile stamp catalogus: the “Ukrainia DP Camp, POW Camp, Government in Exile and National Council Issues” (second edition) catalog of stamps of, well, the title says it all. And let me start by saying that this […]

Latvian non-postal exile stamps by Zichmanis

August 24, 2012February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg20134 Comments

Few exile stamps catalogs must have such an honest name as this one: Latvian non-postal exile stamps is exactly what it shows. The Romanian and especially the Croatian exile communities tried to establish some sort of legality by producing stamps which were supposed to be somehow official. The stamps shown in this catalog are propaganda […]

Polish Exile stamps: the Italian scene

July 31, 2012February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg17383 Comments

After starting to collect the Polish Exile stamps I decided I needed stamp album pages for these stamps too. The stamps the Polish exile government in the UK had produced had proper standing amongst collectors and so there are several sources of stamp album pages out there. I used the pages produced by Mr. Steiner. […]

Polish Exile Mail in Great Britain 1939-1949

July 9, 2011February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg14722 Comments

Most books about stamps tend to be either a catalogue (and rightly so in most cases when they are advertised as catalogues of course) or a history book, with stamps included. This book however is quite different from most books about stamps I have. It has a series of chapters which each on their own […]

Exile governments, stamps and catalogs

July 28, 2009February 1, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg9946Leave a Comment

Ever since governments were ousted governments refused to accept such situations and decided to entertain their own court abroad, hoping for a day when, either by their machinations or by some remarkable change of fortune, they could become the accepted government of their former territory. The only serious exile government at this time seems to […]