Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
I started collecting the Postal Stationery of the DPRK as I had one or two clients who were buying North Korean postal history which was all but unobtainable in Western Europe in the 1980’s. After leaving Stanley Gibbons in 1992 to start ‘Carmichael & Todd’, I joined the KSC. I attended, with a stand, the […]
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While working on a Corinphila Auction (April 2006), I was lucky enough to locate and later certify, the attached Postal Stationery card with two fine strikes of this rare mark. The late Meiso Mizuhara’s book showed, on page 18 in Postal History of Korea his recorded dates of use of this rare cancellation: May 20, […]
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The cover dated circa November 1895 is similar to that illustrated in Zirkle’s book on page 91. Both the front, bearing the 1895 first printing 10p. blue tied by the Chemulpo datestamp in black; and a portion of the reverse are illustrated herewith. The reverse bears the crest of the ‘H.M.S.Edgar’, a 12-gun twin-screw launched […]
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In 1997, I published privately in a limited edition of 150 copies the Catalogue of North Korean Postal Stationery 1947-1961. This has since been somewhat superseded by the DPRK publishing their own version of this catalogue, in the process of which they, let us say, inadvertently, stole much of my information, and, indeed, some of […]
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