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Gärtner auction nr. 40 contained an interesting envelope with both an 1895/96 Tae Geuk 5 Poon bluish green and a 10 Poon dull blue stamp. These stamps are listed in the KPSC as numbers 3A and 4A respectively.
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For those collectors that wish to have a Korean postage stamp catalogue I can highly recommend the latest 2019 edition of the Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue. It is easy to find the ordering information in English using the eBay search engine and entering “Korean Stamp Catalogue”. I placed an order on July 2 and the […]
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An introductory article about North Korean stamps was published in Stamp & Coin Mart (July 2018 edition). Written by Christ West it was introduced as: “As North and South Korea take tentative steps towards reconciliation, Chris West looks back on the history of the region and the stamps issued by one of the world’s last […]
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On July 27 Juche 107 (2018) Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set with 2 stamps at 10 and 30 won and a souvenir sheet at 70 won to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War, the DPRK recognized naming for the Korean War, which ended 27 July 1953.
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 25 July 2018 KoreaPost released two stamps showing different people known for their specialty, in this case two modern Korean painters. They are Park Su-geun/박수근) (1914-1965) and Chang Ucchin/장욱진 (1917-1990).
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In KP Vol. 50 Nr. 4 (November 2005) Florian Eichhorn wrote a short article about a mysterious cancellation. This is shown here again, with some new information and a remarkable new 2018 addition.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued to show Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of Indian independence movement. The stamp was printed on cloth-paper to mark the centenary of Gandhi’s Khadi Movement.
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[Editor] The following information supplied by Florian Eichhorn was published earlier in KP Vol. 53, No. 4, but because of forgeries of Korean philatelic materials showing up so often it is shown here as a warning. If anybody has information regarding forgeries please let us know. Together we can try to minimize the risks of […]
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(From: KP May 1996 Vol. 42 No. 2, page 23) There is a small but steady interest in revenue stamps. By chance, I obtained a set of North Korean revenue stamps. I have never seen them before, though that may not be relevant.
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(From KP May 2012 Vol. 54, No. 2, pages 13-15) Nowadays, many veteran philatelists are quite pessimistic about the future of their hobby. Fifty years ago, every schoolboy was collecting stamps, but now the tradition is obviously dying out. Perhaps, several decades ago, before TV, the internet, iPhones, and video games, stamps were among the […]
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The Philatelic history of Korea has been well documented. Early on, this was probably due to the “Opening of Korea” and the resulting presence of foreigners from postal operational nations, before the Korean Postal Bureau was created in 1884. Two texts, by two different authors, are shown here. The first example, by Edgar J. Mandel, […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 10 July 2018 KoreaPost released four stamps showing different species of protected marine animals.
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The rarest Korean Christmas seal is the “unissued” Children and Snowy Mountains of 1940. The brief story how it became rare is told by Stephen Hasegawa in the following article that is in his 2006 catalogue of “Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Christmas and New Year Seals of Korea”. As noted in the article, in 2006, only […]
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The KSS has a long tradition of answering reader questions. Members (and also non-members) have in the past asked about unknown stamps, variations, perforations, dates of publication, etc. Examples of such questions can be found on the KSS website as well. Here is a question from Al Sedita regarding Korean revenue stamps.
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(From Korean Philately February 1998, pages 5-6; full title “Assistance Requested for Monograph on Local/Municipal Revenue Stamps of Korea”) The Board of the Korea Stamp Society met during the recent PACIFIC 97 in San Francisco. During that meeting a tentative schedule of Monographs and special publications was announced. Of interest to revenue collectors of Korea […]
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Kiku Shimbun 169 (August 2016) featured an article about the use of Japanese Showa stamps in South Korea after late 1945. The article is reprinted here by permission. It was based on a translation of text from the ‘Specialised Catalogue of Showa Stamps’ by BSJP member Nicholas Pertwee.
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