Peter Winter started his business of making reproductions of rare stamps in the early eighties, under the title PRO PHIL FORUM in Bremen, Germany. About 1986, the British Library took action against him for breach of copyright as he had…...
The name of Schröder & Schyler of Bordeaux is well known to collectors of the postal history of Norway and Denmark from the 18th, century onwards. Indeed 1t has often been said that without this firm’s correspondence it would be…...
Today one can travel comfortably by ferry from the village of Grisslehamn, on the east coast of Sweden to Eckerö, which is one of the islands in the archipelago of Åland. It takes about two hours to cover the 40…...
(Translated from ‘Postens Kundtidning’) The idea of using some form of stamping to replace the first gummed postage stamps introduced in England in 1840 came soon after this date. The first detailed method for postage stamping was developed by a…...
