(This article is taken from the 1985 Næstved Exhibition catalogue by kind permission of the author, and has been translated by R.S.Johnson) It is a long time since Swedes became used to using stamp booklets. Booklet no.1 came out on…...
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…...
Illustration courtesy of Bjarne Heck (From “Post och Jarnvagar i Östergotland”, SFF Special handbook No.21, translated by Cohn Maycock. Uno Blomquist is the former chairman of the Swedish Railways Stamp Society and editor of its magazine.) Up to the 1850s,…...
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…...
