Illustrations courtesy of Brian Flack The vast glacial dessert of Vatnajokull, in south-eastern Iceland. is just a barren area dividing regions where there is life and movement. Not a living thing can be seen or heard; everything is inanimate, frozen,…...
THE STORY BEHIND THE STAMP DESIGN By D. W. Summerfield Originally Published in June 1956 The Corner Designs of the Icelandic :Parliamentary Millenary Issue. of 1930. Facit: No.189-193.Scott No. C 4/8. Gibbons 237 241. By D. W. Summerfield The peculiar…...
By Rene van Rompay Originally Published December 1955 In the second half of the 19th century, the Norwegians Missionary Society (Det Norske Missionsselskab), opened a number of mission stations on the tropical island of Madagascar, and in order to expedite…...
Originally Published in June 1955 and updated in September 1955 by the editor Notes on a talk and Display given to the Group on Thursday 21st April 1955 by F.T.K. Caroe Uniform “penny postage” came into force in Denmark in 1851,…...
