SHORT HISTORICAL FEATURES ON FINLAND UP TO 1917 AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A PHILATELIST (Member of Bergens Filatelist Klub on 11TH March 1958 translated by Abram Odfjell) I have been asked: “Why do you collect Finland”?, and my…...
William A. HaarstadIllustrations: Birthe King Originally Published June 1958 Reprinted with permission from the German Specialist-December 1957 It is apparent that historians of the future must consider June 22nd 1941 as one of the fateful days in the struggle for…...
By W.K.S. (Translated.R. King-Farlow) Originally Published December 1957 Reprinted with permission from “Norsk Filatelistisk Tidskrift” No. 12/1952 As an individual, King Olay Haraldsson (995-1030) was a typical Viking king brave, cunning and cruel yet in Norway his fame can never…...
For the September 1953 CONTACT (Vol 1, No 2) I wrote a short article on the various postmarks which, from the eighteenth century until towards the end of the nineteenth, were applied to letters on their arrival in France to…...
