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In addition to the post offices of Turkey, Austria, France and Russia operating in the city of Jaffa at the end of the 19th century, letter writers in the city had another way to send their letters. The ships that docked in the port of Jaffa used to hang a special box overboard, in which those interested could put their letters. The ships that sailed from Jaffa to the port of Port Said in Egypt delivered the letters to the local post office, where the stamps were stamped with a special stamp. A rare postcard preserved in the Alexander collection is an example of this procedure.
On March 31, 1914, the Bavarian Post Office issued for the first time in the world stamps prepared by a printing process based on photogravure.
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Designing a postage stamp requires a great deal of involvement and emotion from the designer, from finding the idea that will express the stamp’s theme to the artistic creation that will bring the idea to expression. Often, the designer chooses to utilize the stamp as a platform for incorporating a personal, hidden statement that is not necessarily related to the stamp’s theme.
A printing error that caused one of the stamp colors to not be printed in the correct position, causing distortion of the final stamp image. This can only occur in cases where the stamp was printed in more than one color, and the different colors were each printed using a separate printing plate. If the printer did not carefully match the positions of the different printing plates to each other, color deviation may occur.
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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