Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 31 August 2018 KoreaPost released a stamp commemorating “The 19th World ARDF Championships” or “제19회 세계 전파방향탐지 선수권대회”. For more information on the ARDF Championships see the Korean Amateur Radio League (KARL) website.
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Kiku Shimbun 169 (August 2016) featured an article about the use of Japanese Showa stamps in North Korea after late 1945. The article is reprinted here by permission. Parts of this article were from a translation of ‘The Specialised Catalogue of Showa Stamps’ with the translation being carried out by our member Nicholas Pertwee. The […]
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A report from 15 years ago. The battered cover, reduced on bottom, is addressed to the Italian Consul at Yokohama, in syllabics ka-ru-?ya (not probably a “Carlo…”). Sender is the Japanese consulate at Pusan/Korea.
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A request for information by Australian KSS member Robert Finder: “I have had this for some time, but do not know what it really is. The used #1 is extremely rare and only a few copies are recorded. This pair has a certificate and a lineage from auctions, but I don’t know if it is […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Vehicles are the main transportation means in the transport sector. The stamps show the vehicles manufactured by the Korean working class as the labour gifts of loyalty presented to the 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
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The Korean seals known most widely as Christmas and New Year seals are actually tuberculosis seals. Dr. Sherwood Hall, who was born in Seoul Korea in 1893, devoted his life to medical missions with his wife, Dr. Marian B. Hall in Korea. Dr. Hall was the founder of the first tuberculosis hospital, “School of Hygiene […]
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After learning about the existence of the online database of the National Archives of Korea (NAK) I quickly discovered a treasure trove of documents related to Korean philately. Thousands of documents with listings of stamp values, revenue stamps issues (including local revenue stamps) and meter marks, often even shown with (simple) drawings. And that’s just the […]
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A few years ago I noticed an unusual sheet of the 1940 Korean Christmas seals listed on eBay by a Scandinavian dealer. Some of the collectors of Korean Christmas seals collect full sheets of the seals, as well as full booklets, especially of the early issues from 1932-40. This particular sheet seemed to have the […]
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The article “The Two Koreas’ Societies Reflected In Stamps”, written by Gabriel Jonsson, was published in “East Asia” magazine in 2005. Mr. Jonsson is currently working as researcher at the Department for Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at the Stockholm University’s Faculty of Humanities.
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Mt. Myohyang Hotel, summer of 2003. I was doing my morning walk around the hotel lobby and saw the telephone booth lady putting out a display tray of stamps in the display cabinet. After she had finished displaying, she started to cut sheet stamps to individual stamps to replenish the display trays. This is when […]
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Following Part-1 of this article in the issue No. 169 of Kiku Shimbun, I have acquired a new and important item for my Showa period collection during my recent visit to Tokyo and the JAPEX’2016 exhibition, this being a Postal Charges Receipt form illustrating the usage of overprinted stamps issued for use in South Korea by […]
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In 1970 the “Philatelic handbook for Korea, 1884-1905” was published by The Collectors Club in their series of handbooks as handbook number 23. Written/compiled by Helen Zirkle and others it was published in 1970 and was, at the time, one of the very few specialized books about Korean philatelic history.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to mark the Praga 2018 Expo World Stamp Exhibition. The 70 won stamp shows a Papilio machon amurensis, the other 70 won stamp in the sheetlet the Phalaenopsis aphrodite.
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(Originally from KP double number November 2012 / February 2013, Vol. 54 Nr. 4 / Vol. 55 Nr. 1) In 60 years of searching here is the only cover showing commercial use of the 1951 Wartime Overprints that I have been able to locate (Figure 7). Do you or any KSS members have others? Because of […]
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(Originally from KP August, 2012—Vol. 54, No. 3) For an in-country Korean military mail cover to be fully complete, it should essentially have three chops or strikes that say four things:1) it is military mail, 2) it has the military unit number, 3) it has gone thru security, and 4) there should be a round […]
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The end of the Korean War is already more than half a century in the past, and much of the philatelic activity engendered by that conflict has been extensively described and consolidated. A major aspect, however, has escaped attention until very recently. The Korean Stamp Catalogue, published by the Korean Stamp Corporation in Pyongyang, contains […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 6 August 2018 KoreaPost released four stamps showing “Overseas Independence Movement Sites – footsteps of independent activists” or “해외 독립운동 유적지 – 독립운동가의 발자취”.
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Ever wondered whether all these commemoratives issued by postal services are really used postally? Of course you have, as a collector you simply can’t have missed all these (expensive!) series of commemoratives being offered from all over the world. Do places like Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Tuvalu or Vanuatu really need so many stamps? […]
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The 41st Gärtner auction contains two interesting Korean covers. Both covers are pre-1900 and contain stamps from both Korea (classical Korean/Empire period) and Japan. The auction is held on 16-17 August. For more information see the Auktionen Gärtner website.
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For philatelists interested in Korean philatelic items the best source of information is probably Kobay. Unfortunately Kobay is available in Korean only and ordering can due to the constraints effectively only be done by Korean nationals. However, seller “jsm654” recently listed several interesting covers which we would like to show to non-Korean speaking philatelists.
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