Herbert Pritchett Originaly Published in September 1959Illustration Salo Heimann Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of the Foundation Of the Swedish Colony “New Sweden in North America In November 1637, an expedition sailed from Goteborg in the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel…...
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…...
Originally Published in December 1958 The Island of Jan Mayen is a bleak and inhospitable hulk situated on Latitude 71° north, and 9° west or approximately midway between Spitzbergen and Iceland. The island was discovered by the intrepid Henry Hudson…...
Originally Published in December 1958 (Reprinted with permission from “The Stamp Lover” Aug/Sept1958) In the past Greenland has been described in terms intended to emphasise the mysterious and remote; the Forbidden Lane, the Unknown Island. Today these phrases remain partly…...
