April 1946 postwar usages of Postage Fee Paid forms with Japanese Showa and USAMGIK surcharges
April 1946 postwar usages of Postage Fee Paid forms with Japanese Showa and USAMGIK surcharges — Korea Stamp Society
In 1919 the Japanese Posts introduced “Postage Fee Paid” forms. These forms were used to pay for various...
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Stamp collecting promotion posters from the 1980s and 1990s on NAK website
Stamp collecting promotion posters from the 1980s and 1990s on NAK website — Korea Stamp Society
The South Korean government has been promoting the digitization of archives for several decades now. This is great ...
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Reader’s Question: How much to send an envelope from North Korea to the USA in 1978?
Reader's Question: How much to send an envelope from North Korea to the USA in 1978? — Korea Stamp Society
Marci Jarvis, editor of Cat Mews (which is the magazine of the Cats on Stamps Study Unit) has a question with ...
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KPSC R142 (30 hwan, king Sejong) #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Air Letter Sheet (KSS #ALS2) #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Don't fall for the many many fakes of "original" artworks for DPRK stamps available on auction websites. The only original thing about them is that they were indeed made by North Korea, but they are 100% modern/recently made! #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Examples of DPRK new issue leaflet from the 1990s: when times were different
Examples of DPRK new issue leaflet from the 1990s: when times were different — Korea Stamp Society
For several years (starting in 2018) the KSS has been listing new stamp issues from North Korea. With these new ...
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Reader’s Question: Why these strange North Korean stamp issues?
Reader's Question: Why these strange North Korean stamp issues? — Korea Stamp Society
Leafing through the catalog of DPRK stamps and analyzing the policy of themes and stories on the stamps, I had ...
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Immediately after the end of the Second World War Korea was (still) one country, in desperate need of stamps. Japanese stamps were readily available, so why not overprint them? Here is one result. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Readers Question: Chōsen Sotokufu Teishin Kyoku Card?
Readers Question: Chōsen Sotokufu Teishin Kyoku Card? — Korea Stamp Society
My question concerns a card that was issued by Chōsen Sotokufu Teishin Kyoku and features a picture of chickens ...
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KPSC R143 (40 hwan, Tristam’s Woodpecker (Dryocopus Richardsi)) #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
North Korean block from 2003 to celebrate Mao Zedong’s 110th birthday. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Sold in a North Korean hotel in the 2000s, this 1967 sheet is unlike most DPRK stamps not really showing much propaganda. The numbers are the price of the sheet, written by the woman selling the sheets. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
People being carried in a chige, a carrier used by farmers to convey goods and items on their back. Notice the narrow gauge track on which they are walking, this is not the Seoul tramway line. Card from approx. 1900, photograph by Aleveque. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
1965 North Korean stamp sheet commemorating the "Construction of Pyongyang Thermal Power Station". Such sheets are sold even today at hotels in North Korea to tourists, which is how one KSS member acquired this sheet. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
One Example of Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Tuberculosis/Christmas and New Year Envelopes and Letters Stationery
One Example of Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Tuberculosis/Christmas and New Year Envelopes and Letters Stationery — Korea Stamp Society
Eventually we will publish a full description of the Dr. Sherwood Hall’s known Tuberculosis/Christmas and New Ye...
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Photograph of Yi Yongik (1854-1907) who was Minister of Finance. He sent Aleveque to France to negotiate a loan, and to attend the Paris Exposition of 1900. Card from approx. 1900 from photograph by Charles Aleveque. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Variations on a theme. The two stamps on the left show different distances between points of star vs circle. In the stamp to the right the star in the circle is somewhat rotated to the right. #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
Seoul local revenue stamp, used until recently to pay for all sorts of documents. Notice the overprints: these are district names, making it possible to administrate the finances per district. Can you recognize them? #Stamps #Philately #우표취미 #우표
