af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 14, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Todays stamp from the Falkland Islands shows the portrait of King George VI. He was also called Prince Albert, duke of York, in full Albert Frederick Arthur George, born in 1895 and died in1952king of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952. The stamp also show a map of...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 13, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Todays stamp is from the Dutch Indies (1870) showing the portrait of King Wilhelm III. He was born in 1817 in Brussels and died in 1890 in Apeldoorn. He was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1849 – 1890. He was the son of William II of the...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 12, 2023 | Stamp of the day
I hope you find plate errors an exciting part of philately. In the next few days, you must try yourself to see, if you can find the error. Today’s stamp is from Denmark and has a very significant error. It was issued in 1904 and the error increased the value of...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 11, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Many stamp collectors love to collect variants, so-called plate errors on stamps. Some hate it and call the small “dots” for “flyspeck”. But even small plate errors can increase the value of stamps dramatically. Today’s stamp is from the Allied occupation of...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 10, 2023 | Stamp of the day
I have decided to show yet another specimen of a reverse center stamp. Just four days ago, on June 3, 2023, a Japanese stamp from 1871 (500 mon) was sold for no less than 5.4 million euros to a Japanese collector. The sale was conducted by the auction company David...
