2022 – Week 51 A somewhat premature telegram from the king Lt. Harry George Hawker, former chief test pilot of the Sopwith Aviation Company, and his navigator Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth…

2022 – Week 49 „It’s raining here …“(Shanghai February 1973) At least since Marco Polo's travels, the Middle Kingdom has been a well-known mystery. Barely any other country is the…

2022 – Week 41 Why the Queen was not Queen of England She held the throne longer than any British monarch before - 70 years and 214 days, to be…

2022 – Week 39 Lawyer's mail from Vienna to the French Atlantic coast Remarkable frankings are often on covers of heigher weight or with special treatment (here: "recomanded" - "registered").…

2022 – Week 38 Destination in the mountains The postal system of Liechtenstein, as small as the country may be, looks back on a long and eventful history. From the…

2022 – Week 35 The 100 Lire Forgery from Buenos Aires Forgery and fraud troubles the postal services longer than the introduction of adhesives. Sending mails was always an expensive…

2022 – Week 33 The Bavarian Palatinate is always good for (philatelic) surprises The Bavarian territories on the left bank of the Rhine - also known as the Rhine district…

2022 – Week 25 Postage stamp issue 1 July 1870 A larger, stained cover with significant traces of carriage and aging, two stamps have obviously fallen off, and the four…

2022 – Week 24 The Weimar National Theater Symbolic theater of German culture or political arena of the National Socialists? Probably both - and much more. The Weimar National Theater…

2022 – Week 23 Sylt - Trauminsel der Deutschen? Or maybe Heligoland? Opinions differ here. Let's see it from a philatelic point of view. Sylt, which only came to Prussia…