Korea Stamp Society

Five examples of mail sent from the USSR to the DPRK in 1950

December 29, 2021December 4, 2021 Alexander Shaposhnikov451Leave a Comment

Shown here are 5 covers sent between June and September 1950 to North Korea. Covers no. 1-4 were sent by Soviet citizens of Korean ethnicity to their relatives or friends, who were living in the territory of North Korea. The sender of the fifth cover is presumably the wife of a Soviet officer, who at […]

How Stalin and Mao disappeared even from the Soviet map of Pyongyang

May 1, 2021February 6, 2021 Alexander Shaposhnikov7601 Comment

One thing leads to another, and before you know it, yet more information comes your way. We have seen this happening time and again in the Korea Stamp Society these last few years. In this particular case: when Willem van der Bijl showed us scans of his collection of DPRK stamp artworks (see KP Vol. […]

More Chollima stamp examples: USSR 1960

November 28, 2020October 31, 2020 Robert (Bob) Finder1238Leave 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 […]