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Illustrated below are two copies of DPRK 1356 (Scott’s), one with the 15ch denomination (right), but the other without any indication of denomination (left). I have no recollection about how these came into my hands. If anyone has any additional information about this apparent error, I’d appreciate hearing from them.
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In the Korean Philately of August 2005 a short correspondence between Greg Todd and Robin Ko from Robin Philatelics was published. They corresponded regarding a version of a North Korean stamp sheet which Greg Todd had seen in an auction but which looked rather distinct.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Tea culture comprises such domains related to tea as cultivation of tea trees, processing of tea leaves, and production and using customs of tea cups and things for boiling.
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The most recent edition of the (DPRK/North) Korean Stamp Catalogue or “조선우표목록” is the 10th edition (2016) containing all the stamps published by the DPRK between March 1946 and early November 2015. This catalogue was first reviewed by Taizo Maeda in the August 2003 edition of the KP (Vol. 49, No. 3).
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Before his death, Frank Allard was an ongoing source of interesting postcards reflecting Korean history. Here are the remaining items provided by Frank. I hope you enjoy them. Frank was not always clear about what fronts and backs go together; we hope we have them matched correctly!
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I have found the collecting of Korean revenue stamps to be very challenging. Revenue stamps have not been much valued in South Korea, itself, and, until the publication of Stephen Hasegawa’s The Standard Catalogue of Korean Revenue Stamps in 2005, there was not a good resource for identifying Korean revenue stamps. (Hasegawa’s catalogue will be […]
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This 79-page combined catalogue of Korean revenues and a list of Korean Government bonds was self-published via computer in 2005. It is spiral plastic bound with heavy front and back covers and standard white paper.
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In 1967, Seoul police broke up a large counterfeiting ring that included post office officials. The group had forged 20-won, 40w, 50w and 100w definitives, sold by clerks who received a commission on their sales. Forgeries amounted to about 10 percent of sales for several months at some post offices. As with most postal forgeries, […]
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What can be said about this cover (Figure 1) addressed to President [Theodore] Roosevelt? The cover has a return address of “Pyeng Yang, Korea, Japan,” which is interesting. The cover is addressed simply to “President Roosevelt, Washington, USA.” The front of the cover contains a strip of five Japanese stamps with three faint circular cancels […]
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In attending a human relations program some time in the past one of the instructors taught us that to assume (ass-u-me) is to make an “ass of you and me.” Unfortunately, there is much too much assuming in the world of philately, where the facts are not known and an assumption is made.
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We have quite a good number of hard-to-get items issued by the North Korean government since their establishment as a nation. They have been long-time targets of pursuit by (North) Korean riff-raff who have given up only a few, if any, materials for their study. In the past decade, however, a Korean-American dealer who claims […]
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If I were going to write an article on Korean municipals (see Ross article in 50(2), pp. 10-12), I would probably entitle it, “Municipals–The Mt. Everest of Korean Philately.” Then I would probably make the dire prediction that there will never be a catalogue that is complete in this field. I would be willing to […]
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In the past Andrew Crenshaw contacted the KSS regarding military covers from ROK soldiers sent from Vietnam during the Vietnam war. One example of these covers is shown here. It is a cover sent from Vietnam to Seoul, but something went wrong.
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Continue Reading Contents of Korean Philately Volume 52 Number 1. This was the February 2007 edition of the KP.
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Who can help me identify the stamps illustrated below? Again, I have no recollection of where they came from, but I think they may be North Korean, perhaps local, revenue stamps. I’d like to hear from anyone who can provide any insights into this stamp.
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Joel Henderson (see Letters to the Editors in 50(2), p. 4) stimulated me to investigate my stock of Sc#479 or KPC #C255. Joel’s question on Scott #479 moved me to look over my stock of this stamp. I was in Korea when that stamp was issued and for years afterwards, and I did not run […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to reflect the eight famous scenes in the Sobaeksu Valley of Mt. Paektu where the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il was born.
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(German language) “1897/1904, ungebrauchte und gestempelte Sammlung mit besseren und kpl. Ausgaben, dabei u.a. Mi.-Nr. 23 ungebraucht und Mi.-Nr. 32-44 gestempelt, meist in guter Erhaltung, sauber auf zwei alten Vordruckblättern.”
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