Archives for Philately
Philately
PHILATELY (Gr. 4LXor, loving, and &rfXs~s, free of tax), the study and collection of postage-stamps and other marks of prepayment issued by post-offices. The fancy for collecting postagestamps began a…
‘Japanese Philately’: the cultural side of stamps
One of the great pleasures I get from working at Linn's Stamp News is reading the many hundreds of stamp publications that come to Linn's offices every week, and I…
The International Society for Japanese Philately
The International Society for Japanese Philately was founded in Canada in 1945. Membership is worldwide and open to any philatelist of ethical reputation. The Society is non-political and non-commercial with…
A History of Russian Philately Part 3
25 October 1917J (= 7 November 1917G) With the support of the armed forces, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Petrograd. Elections a couple of weeks later showed them to…
A History of Russian Philately Part 2
1 Jan 1858J - 2 March 1917J 1 January 1858J Russia officially adopts its first stamp - an imperforate 10 kopek stamp, good for the postage of a letter weighing…
A History of Russian Philately Part 1
A History of Russian Philately Part 1 255BC - 31 December 1857 Ninth Century Wow. Twelve hundred years ago. Way back then, the earliest known Russian writings referred to messages…
An Introduction to Hungarian Philately
Early History Magyar tribes migrated from Asia and settled in the Carpathian Basin in 896AD. The Kingdom of Hungary, founded by King St. Stephen in 1000AD, had a turbulent history…
Postage stamps and postal history of India
The postage stamps and postal history of India are complicated by the patchwork of British and local rule prior to partition in 1947. For the states with their own stamps,…