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A rare envelope kept in the Alexander collection is probably the only remnant of a special postal service that was operated in the middle of 1923 between Egypt and Lebanon, with cooperation between the Egyptian post office (under British rule) and a private company. The special service operated for about nine months, and was canceled after it was integrated into the routine mail transport lines between Egypt and Syria.
On June 10, 1947, Norfolk Post issued its first stamps.
Often there is disagreement among commentators and scholars about how to understand the descriptions appearing in the Holy Scriptures and the books of ancient historians. In these cases, stamp designers are forced to choose one of the options and incorporate it into the stamp.
A term describing the position of the stamp’s print relative to the perforations around the stamp’s circumference. A well-centered stamp has the same width of margins on both sides of the stamp and between the top and bottom.
An envelope sent on the island of Trinidad documents an attempt by the local charity to collect donations for the Red Cross during World War I. The course of events turned this activity into a philatelic curiosity.
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