Donald G. Vorhis, Author at Korea Stamp Society

Korean Cover to President Roosevelt

March 21, 2018November 30, 2018 Donald G. Vorhis11541 Comment

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 […]

Anything Can Happen These Days: North Korean Overprints

March 18, 2018February 3, 2019 Taizo Maeda35715 Comments

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 […]

Ruminations on Korean Municipals

March 18, 2018November 30, 2018 Gary McLean1193Leave a Comment

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 […]

Korea Philately February 2007 Download

March 17, 2018 Gary McLean722Leave a Comment

(KSS members only content.) Members of the KSS can download complete PDF files of past editions of Korean Philately magazine. If you are a member of KSS and would like to read this edition of Korean Philately, please login using your KSS website account and password. Complimentary sample copies of the Korean Philately are available […]

What Is This Stamp? (DPRK, 1949)

March 17, 2018February 9, 2019 Gary McLean16151 Comment

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.

Editorial (KP Vol. 50, No. 3)

January 18, 2018January 29, 2019 Gary McLean1284Leave a Comment

On February 11, 2005, there was a special presentation of the stamp issued to commemorate the “successful cloning of human embryonic stem cells” by a Korean professor, Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University. The Summer, 2005, issue of Korean Stamp Review said that this event was “a most brilliant, phenomenal achievement that has surely enhanced […]