The TPO cancel used on the last illustration reminds me to show you a recently encountered “album weed”, i.e. a philatelic item that should be expunged from any used stamp collection of Sweden. The stamp is a Lösen, (Swedish postage…...
A table of postage rates. It is the basis of charges for the postal services provided by the Swedish state under the provisions of Royal Decrees dated 13 October 1785 and 14 August 1800 from Swedish post offices in Sweden…...
(with translation/amplification by Peter Hellberg, as consented) Further to Swedish Notes in last issue of Contact on pp. 98-9, I send you some examples of currency control covers, and recommend that you extract relevant parts of the Ingemar Wågerman reference…...
Airmail to Africa, then Helicopter Mail. One of the more unusual covers to come my way is the illustrated airmail flimsy that was sent from Göteborg to Liberia, West Africa, in 1957. Then it was transported in that country by…...
