Almost a year. Almost a year since my last article. I've been busy! Should I feel guilty? I don't think so, it is my pet fun project after all. Life has been very busy and my stamps are now splitting time with collecting records and CDs, trying to learn a
Wow...3 months have flown by. No articles for 3 months...I've been busy. Part of the delay however was that I discovered after beginning this article that it was going to be a completely different article than I had originally intended...you'll see why below. The National Costume series
Here's an interesting pair of stamps that I found while sorting through some unfiled Austrian stuff. My first thought was "that's an interesting color for a cancel," but upon closer examination this isn't something I've ever seen. After closer inspection, I realized the cancel/overprint (I don't know which it
The above cover is the first post-war obliterated Reich stamp cover I’ve ever purchased (I did get another at Stampex as well). This series of stamps were issued immediately after WWII — the postal authority used the existing stock of Reich stamps and obliterated Hitler’s face (as well as
I received some unexpected advertising and an order form from the folks at Active Intermedia (the folks who publish the wonderful Austria Netto Katalog) and it arrived on the below cover — which is puzzling. On the back, there is some more information in three languages: But back to the front.
These are some of my favorite pieces. These vary in date, but display several stamps from late in the Franz Joseph reign. All three are to Istanbul, but it is curious that some of them have both “Istanbul” and “Constantinople” written on them. I’m not sure exactly when the
