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Ukrainian Camp and Exile issues catalog

September 19, 2012February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg43302 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 Spanjersberg27694 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 Spanjersberg23423 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. […]

The Tuva 2000 Stamp Catalogue by Anders Backman

July 29, 2012August 24, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg41002 Comments

A few years ago I bought the Tuva 2000 Stamp Catalogue, a small but very colorful catalogue full of stamps of Tuva produced by Anders Backman of Sweden. Tuva, or Tyva or Tannu Tuva, is not a very well known area of the world, but amongst stamp collectors it enjoys quite some popularity. Why this […]

Polish Exile Mail in Great Britain 1939-1949

July 9, 2011February 2, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg22112 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 Spanjersberg15016Leave 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 […]