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Overrun Countries stamps. The Overrun Countries series was a series of thirteen commemorative postage stamps, each of five-cent denomination, issued by the United States over a fifteen-month period in 1943 and 1944 as a tribute to thirteen nations overrun, occupied, and/or annexed by the Axis Powers during or shortly before World War II.
— Printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing — Issued between 1957 and 1961. Champion of Liberty commemorative stamps, also known as the Champion of Liberty series, were a series of nineteen commemorative stamps issued periodically by the United States Post Office between 1957 and 1961 in honor of men who fought for the cause of freedom and independence in their home countries.
After the full invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, Ukrposhta issued its first postage stamp related to the war, the "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" stamp, to commemorate the moment of the Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island issuing a defiant response to the Russian cruiser the Moskva. A total of one million stamps were issued ...
A 1922 stamp of issued during the East Karelian Uprising A 2.75 markka stamp of 1941 A semi-postal stamp of 1943. Karelia has appeared in philately several times; first as a breakaway republic from Soviet Russia in 1922, later when Eastern Karelia was occupied by Finland during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, and in the post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were issued.
John N. Luff and Benno Loewy, The Postage Stamps of the United States (New York, Scott Stamp & Coin Co., 1902). AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-05-23) Encyclopaedia of Postal History at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-10-10) Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues.
Aug. 18—John Krist has been a collector since he was 13. Forty-five years later, Krist has amassed a wonderful collection of Roman coins. "It's easier today than it was 20 years ago to collect ...
The society publishes the Rossica Journal of Russian Philately, which was originally published in Russian, and is now published in English.The journal won the gold medal at SESCAL 2003, gold medals at NAPEX 2005 and 2015, and the vermiel medal at St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2007.
The Islander Collection of South America Anonymous Robert A. Siegel, New York [21] $2,426,000 $1,150,000 Mauritius 2d blue (III) British Mauritius: 1847 12 known 1993: Anonymous Mauritian private consortium David Feldman SA, Geneva [22] $2,300,000 $1,680,000 "Champion" letter with two 5-centime Strubels in blue misprint and brown 5-centime Strubel