Stamp Stories from around the world

MEMEL: HEART-PIECE block from 1920

MEMEL: HEART-PIECE block from 1920

MEMEL was the most eastern part of Preusen (south of Lithauen). After WW1 the territory was given to France in 1920 according to the Versailles Treaty. This beautiful block (**), a so-called „heart-piece” (because of the small blank stamp in the middle), was issued in...
OST-SACHSEN: Beautiful letter from 1945

OST-SACHSEN: Beautiful letter from 1945

OST-SACHSEN: Beautiful letter from 1945 with so-called “Postmeistertrennungen” (Postmaster perforation). These stamps were used in the town of Loschwitz in the Soviet Zone Ost-Sachsen just after WW2. The stamps were issued imperforate, but the postmasters in the...
RARE block from Germany 1933

RARE block from Germany 1933

This block ws issued as a tribute to “10 Jahre Deutsche Nothilfe” (10 years of German emergency aid) on 29. November 1933. It is the most valuable block issue from the German Reich. CV is 6.000 € for a mint (**) copy and no less than 10.000 € for a cancelled copy as...
The inverted Jenny

The inverted Jenny

Hello all you stamp friends out there. I this blog I will bring you all the exiting stamp stories from around the world. Today I will tell you the exciting story of the “Inverted Jenny”, one of the most rare and expensive stamps of the world. In 2018 a single copy of...