Throughout the world philatelists have been fascinated by the unusual postal history of Greenland. The issue and applications of the “Pakkeporto” stamps is an inseparable part of this history. Pakkeporto stamps In 1905 the “Royal Greenland Trade Department. (KGH) got…...
From one of last year’s magazines of the Danish Philatelic Association, my Danish friend extracted this story by Mr. H. Thalund about the old ship Hvalfisken and her figurehead which are on the Greenland stamp illustrated here. Hardly any other…...
By H. E. Vesper (Germany) (Reprinted. from “Polar Post” July, 1965) Originally Published December 1965 In 1932-33 a German film expedition went to Greenland for the shooting of the film “S.O.S. Eisberg”. Leader of this “Universal Greenland Expedition” was Dr…...
By Roland King-Farlow and E Wovern Originally Published in March 1959 Updated, edited and illustrated by David Bond November 2012 From time to time various notes on the postmarks of Greenland have appeared in the philatelic press in Denmark and…...
