The envelope written off Green Harbour, Spitsbergen, in late August 1881, by a member of the crew of the “U.S.S.Alliance” whilst searching for the wreckage of the “U.S.S. Jeanette” and the “Rogers”. The envelope was put into the post at…...
(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,…...
