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Category Archives: Articles – General

Sweden Currency Control WWII

Peter Hellberg • 1st December 2013Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

(with translation/amplification by Peter Hellberg, as consented) Further to Swedish Notes in last issue of Contact on pp. 98-9, I send you some examples of currency control covers, and recommend that you extract relevant parts of the Ingemar Wågerman reference…...

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General Beware! They are watching you!

Gwynne Harries • 1st June 2013Articles - General, Articles - other, Member Content

 By Gwynne Harries This is a cautionary personal tale, whichpotentially has very serious implications.Whilst it is unlikely to affect SPS members directly, it is real evidence that some of the recent high profile news reports of individuals seeking asylum, may…...

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Denmark Cheapest FDC ever?

Peter Hellberg • 1st June 2013Articles - General, Denmark, Member Content

Scandinavian postal administrations happily service unaddressed FDC for the cost of the newly-issued stamps to be affixed to them, and parcel them up in bulk for dealers to retail them, and put fancy cancels on the stamps. Normally that is…...

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Sweden Africa Helicopter Mail

Peter Hellberg • 1st March 2013Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

Airmail to Africa, then Helicopter Mail. One of the more unusual covers to come my way is the illustrated airmail flimsy that was sent from Göteborg to Liberia, West Africa, in 1957. Then it was transported in that country by…...

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