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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamp series (printed in 3D), two souvenir sheets (one in 3D) and three sheetlets to commemorate the 60th Founding Anniversary of the Central Zoo.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamp series, two souvenir sheets (one in 3D) and two sheetlets to commemorate the 60th Founding Anniversary of the Central Botanical Garden.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamp and a souvenir sheet (3D) to commemorate the World Horticultural Expo 2019 in Beijing (China).
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From a collector’s standpoint, the 1940 issued seal is very simple. For the officially issued 1940 seal there is only one design, one type of booklet with 5 panes of 10 (5 x 2), one type of sheet of 25 (5 x 5) and two postcards designs. As with the 1939 issues, the postcards are […]
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In an earlier article on finding certain issues of Korea, it was mentioned that this author has been searching for a Korea 1956 Scott 212E on horizontal laid paper for many years. See Figure 1 for an example of 212E on vertical paper. The Scott catalogue makes a note under 212D-F, that all three exist […]
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(Reader’s question/Q&A) I am student and collector of Pre-stamp postal history between USA and Asia. While I have found fair bit of literature on Pre-1860 postal history between USA and China and Japan, I have not been able to find any such information on mail between Korea and USA. I understand US churches including Baptist […]
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Internet is where most people buy and sell stamps today. In the months leading up to the February 2019 US – DPRK summit in Hanoi, there were massive unloads of North Korean stamps on the internet. This presented a good entry point for beginning collectors like myself to acquire some early North Korean stamps. However, […]
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(Reader’s question/Q&A) While browsing Ebay I recently ran into a listing which I first thought had read incorrectly. It was the “The 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area” set of stamps, with a date of publication of 22 May 2019. However, despite these stamps’ future day of issue here they were, available […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a sheetlet containing two stamps showing the cap-badges of the Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 19 April 2019 KoreaPost released four stamps in the “Science in Korea” series. This is the 5th installment of that particular series of stamps showing Korean scientists and scholars of the past.
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This is a short refresher course on the 1895 Taegeuk series and the differences between the first and second printings. After the first short-lived attempt to issue postage stamps in 1884, Korea would not issue postage stamps again until 1895. The first postage stamps to be issued in ten years by Korea had the taegeuk […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a 30 won stamp on the occasion of “Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s Official Goodwill Visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamps series which was issued to mark the “107th Birth Anniversary of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung”.
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With all the recent publications on the 1930s/1940s Christmas seals on the KSS website by Robert Finder one might forget that these Christmas seals are not only interesting from a historical point of view. They are actually still around, being published every year! However, most publicity is available only to a Korean speaking audience. To […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 11 April 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp commemorating the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Provisional Government. The event commemorated with this stamp’s release is directly related to another event of 100 years ago, the March First Movement of 1919, also commemorated by a recent stamp release.
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Question: what do railway tickets and stamps have in common? Answer: not much, unless they come in stationary made exclusively for the tickets. Which is what is shown, amongst all the tickets of course, in the “Korean Railroad Commemorative Ticket Traffic Card Catalogue”, published on March 26 2013.
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(Reader’s question/Q&A) Recently I acquired a Japanese postcard displaying a map of Korea divided into sections (agriculture, communication, rail, and shipping). Since I can’t read Japanese, is there a way to translate the writing. The card was sent to Shanghai and has a pictorial red cancel with Shanghai receiving post mark.
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One of the most detailed catalogs for Korean stamps (not including the Korean Empire), was published for the first time in September, 1959 by Commander L.L. Dilley , USN (Ret.). Commander Dilley, seen here in a photo from World War II, was in the Cryptanalysis Section of Fleet Radio Unit Pacific (FRUPAC) based in Hawaii, […]
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The greatest difficultly in studying DPRK stamps is that reliable references are very limited in number, and the information available might be incomplete or even incorrect. Some stamps are without images in catalogues, some are unissued; and once in a while, collectors may surprisingly find something they have never seen or known before. However, it […]
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