Author Archives: Susan Oliver
Iceland Islands Falk
HMS Islands Falk was 730 tons, built 1906 at Helsingør, Denmark, and a picture postcard shows her in a Faeroese fjord. I am illustrating a commercial envelope from a Faeroese dentist, Hallur Hallsson, sent to Seydisfjordur, Iceland, on the Gunboat,…...
Faroes Postal Connections WW II
Published in 2 parts June and September 2003 The following article is made up from the notes of a conversation written down in København in September 1945 on the occasion of the visit by the Faeroese Postmaster, C.S.J.H. Danielsen, to…...
Faroes Returned by the Censor
During World War II when the British occupied the Faeroe Islands, and Germany occupied both Norway and Denmark, the local Post Office found it necessary to issue provisional stamps due to the impossibility of obtaining supplies from Denmark. There were…...
