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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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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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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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Two of several catalogues published by Joe Ross are about the revenue stamps of Uruguay. The second volume is specifically about the revenue stamps issued by the”Patente de Rodados de Departamento de Montevideo” or “Vehicle Registration Department of Montevideo” between 1928 and 1963.
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WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO WRITE A CATALOG? There is no profit! There is no instant gratification and the time and money spent can never be recovered. Egotism? I think not. My reason is basic: sharing what I have learned with other collectors. There are other factors, such as the chase for elusive material, collating […]
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In 2004 Joe Ross and John Powell published the fourth edition of the most comprehensive catalogue of revenue stamps from Iraq. In over 100 pages they listed pretty much every revenue stamp known at the time of publication. All designs are shown, in the same way the Scott catalogue shows individual designs (but not every […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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