Originally Published September 2006 A few years ago, I asked the question, ‘If Graf Zeppelin carried mail from Helsinki, did she bring any mail to Helsinki?’ Kaj Hellman, the Finnish stamp auctioneer, replied ‘Yes’. In fact, 2110 postcards and 1246…...
Originally Published June 2006 I wrote about the production of the ZEPPELIN overprint, 1930. I now consider what happened to the mail it generated, and how philatelists made the most of the stamps then available. The occasion gave the opportunity…...
Ann Rees & Bill Ross Originally Published December 2004 and March 2005 Following discussions with Ann, while preparing the articles on shipping companies associated with Aland published in the June and September 2000 issues of Contact, it became clear that…...
First published in The London Philatelist, April 2003, and republished with the Editor’s permission. In 1891, the Director of Posts and Telegraphs in St. Petersburg instructed the Finnish postal administration to supply 500-5000 samples of every stamp issued since 1856.…...
