Robert (Bob) Finder, Author at Korea Stamp Society

Dutch New Guinea Forces in Korean War

July 28, 2021January 13, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder20Leave a Comment

A member from the Netherlands philatelic group, the ZWP Study Circle, Han Dijkstra, helped me and Ivo Spanjersberg write an article about the postal history of New Guinea and detailed information about the postal issues of the United Nations “UNTEA” forces during the turnover of West New Guinea to Indonesia in the early 1960’s.

Korean Philately Magazine – Blurb and how to Order Hard Copies

July 10, 2021July 3, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder39Leave a Comment

We have received several questions lately from members on how to order the hard copies of the Korean Philately (KP) magazines. It is currently explained on the website on how to order through Blurb, but we thought it would be good idea to do a refresher article on how the new KP’s came to be […]

And yes, more Chollimas!

June 16, 2021December 2, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder1063 Comments

Recently I found these the two postcards shown in the image advertised in packs of North Korean (DPRK) postcards on Delcampe, including one pack from a dealer in China. I do not really know what they are or what they represent. I only bought them because they featured the Chollima.

Is this a Cover from Dr. New-Ilhan, One of the Co-Founders of La Choy?

June 2, 2021November 14, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder103Leave a Comment

Recently when I was searching on the net for Japanese Occupation of Korea covers, I found a cover that was very interesting to me. I did a search for the sender’s name and discovered that this might be a cover with that contained a letter from New-Ilhan. His original name was Ilhyeong New.

Korea 1945 Cover after WW2 Questions

May 12, 2021November 7, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder1513 Comments

Recently I purchased on eBay, what is most likely a philatelic cover that was a curiosity to me. It was a cover addressed to a fairly famous US naval officer, Read Admiral Jeraud Wright, dated December 12, 1945. (See images of front and back cover) I was not aware that covers had been made with […]

Another Chollima Stamp Was Just “Under our Noses”

April 19, 2021April 30, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder124Leave a Comment

Collectors of North Korea (DPKR) should have noticed that there is another Chollima stamp that was issued for the 2020 New Year (Stamp KSC5232, 10 won, “Under the uplifted banner of self-reliance”). It was already shown in the article issued on the KSS website on January 1, 2020. It was issued with both perforated and […]

Stop the Presses! A New Cover with Hall’s Korea 1940 Unissued Seal has been discovered

April 17, 2021December 3, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder135Leave a Comment

This author has been very fortunate to have discovered a new cover with Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Korea 1940 unissued Tuberculosis/Christmas and New Year Seal. It had been listed on eBay and I was very lucky to obtain it by auction. The last update on this 1940 Korea seal was discussed in the article on the […]

Follow-up to Member’s Request for used stamps from North Korea (DPRK)

March 22, 2021March 11, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder1321 Comment

Come On!!! (A “shout out” popularized by the Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt). Surely at least one of our Korea Stamp Society (KSS) members has some used North Korean stamps that they would like to share with one of our newer members, Paul Scholtens! On December 5, 2020 we published a short article (put in […]

Beautiful Korean Silk/Wood Christmas Card from the late 1920’s

March 13, 2021February 10, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder123Leave a Comment

Recently I was attracted to a “wood” Korean Christmas Card mailed from Korea to Florida, USA in the late 1920’s. I had never seen one like this before and bought it. When I received it, I was pleasantly surprised how beautiful it was, when I actually saw the card itself. The wooden card has a […]

Japan Playing with Korea

January 23, 2021March 5, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder256Leave a Comment

Recently I purchased a postcard showing a Japanese woman throwing images of the first Korean stamps into the air and it intrigued me what this postcard represented. Does any reader know the story behind this postcard? Is it a propaganda anti-Japanese postcard? Where there any other types of these postcards printed?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

December 24, 2020October 30, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder284Leave a Comment

In 1957 Korea introduced the first of its Christmas and New Year stamps and souvenir sheets. These were quite attractive and colourful. They also appealed to children stamp collectors and in fact, this is why I started to collect Korean stamps when I was a child. I loved the little colourful souvenir sheets. The individual […]

More Chollima stamp examples: USSR 1960

November 28, 2020October 31, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder535Leave a Comment

Reader Evgeniy Savchenko commented about the article published on June 24, 2020 on the KSS website concerning the Chollima symbol often used on North Korean stamps. He noted that the USSR in 1960 issued a stamp commemorating the 15th anniversary of the liberation of Korea, Scott 2407. We now have a image of this stamp […]

Special edition of Korean Philately on Christmas Seals 1932-1952 proposed

November 4, 2020March 5, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder502Leave a Comment

Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) current Publisher/Webmaster, Ivo Spanjersberg, and I are working on issuing a special edition of the Korean Philately (KP). Originally we believed we would prepare a book or ”monogram” that would just cover Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Tuberculosis/Christmas and New Year’s seal program that occurred during the period of 1932-1940.

KSS cooperates with Scott catalogue editors

October 17, 2020September 27, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder742Leave a Comment

The newly issued 2021 Scott catalog, Vol 4A , has a Korean stamp (Scott804/KPSC639; issued December 1, 1971) for the New Year of 1972 on the cover. The year 1972 was the Year of the (Water) Rat, and this stamp shows two rats flying a kite. However, in the Korean language the word for mouse […]

Update on the Korea 1940 Unissued Dr. Hall’s Tuberculosis (TB)/Christmas and New Year Seal

October 3, 2020March 5, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder647Leave a Comment

We saw in the article posted on the Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) website on January 23, 2020, that there had been the exciting find of two covers sent from Korea with the unissued 1940 TB/Christmas and New year seal. These were found in the USA by a member of the family of a Christian missionary […]

Korean National Tuberculosis (TB) Association Presentation Booklet 2014

September 12, 2020March 5, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder627Leave a Comment

Recently I joined the Christmas Seal & Charity Stamp Society, and as a result a fellow Aussie, Mr. Ivan Krell, who collects Christmas seals, contacted me to see if we could exchange any Christmas seals. He wasn’t aware of our Korea Stamp Society, so now he has access to some more detailed information about Korean […]

South Korea’s Early Proof and Presentation Sheets Addendum

September 2, 2020March 5, 2021 Robert (Bob) Finder6982 Comments

One area of collecting of Korean philatelic material that is out of reach financially (and availability) are the proof and presentation sheets that South Korea issued in very limited numbers beginning with the 1946 set honouring the Liberation from the Japanese. These were never listed in Scott’s because they were not sold to the public […]

New Plate Fault Indentified on Korea Methodist Anniversary Seal

August 8, 2020July 18, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder375Leave a Comment

I am pleased to announce that due to the sharp eyes of our former Chairman (and current Publisher) that a new consistent plate fault on the Korea 1934 Methodist Anniversary Seal can be announced. This seal was designed by Dr. Sherwood Hall. While there is no value number on the seal itself, it sold for […]

Cover from Dr. Chang-mo Moon Sent In 1953 Is Discovered

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder420Leave a Comment

To my great surprise, as I was scanning some philatelic material related to Korea’s awareness program to fight tuberculosis (TB) for an upcoming publication, I discovered a cover apparently sent by Dr. Chang-mo Moon in 1953. The cover has a 1953 Korea TB seal pasted on the back of the envelope, which would have been […]

More About Dr. Hall’s Stamp Collecting And Missionaries in Korea

July 18, 2020June 12, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder701Leave a Comment

It is encouraging that we are receiving so much new information from members of the Korea Stamp Society (KSS) and readers of the KSS website. In particular, I have been amazed at all the new information we have been receiving about Dr. Hall and other missionaries in Korea prior to WWII. This article is an […]