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History
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Welcome to my History on Stamps web site! This site is under gradual development,
and I will continue to expand the site with new material and new countries as time
allows... Unfortunately, I have not been able to make updates to the site the
last couple of years, but I do hope for more spare time to continue working
on this web site and the albums in the future.
There are three basic types of material to be found here: History
illustrated by stamps, one or more philatelic themes (forgeries, perfins etc),
as well as my own stamp album pages with historic information.
If you arrive directly at this page without the menu frame to the left (or within
another web site's frame), please click here!
Please note that the theme of this web site is 'History ON Stamps'
and not 'History OF Stamps'...
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Latest updates
... about History on Stamps ...
My main collecting interest is Eastern Europe before 1945. The countries currently in my
focus are Bulgaria, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania and
Serbia. I primarily collect STAMPS, but I'm also interested in letters, postcards etc
which can be related to historic events. On this web site I try to combine stamp collecting
with the history of each country by identifying persons and events pictured on the stamps.
To obtain this combination in my collection, I make my own PC stamp albums. At present,
only Bulgaria has an album available for downloading
for the whole period of interest 1879-1946, while only part one of my
Romanian album (1856-1907) is presently available. If you share my interest in
stamps and history, I have made the albums downloadable in .pdf format for free.
Unfortunately, making these albums is slow work, and I have to admit it has had very
little progress the last year...
Furthermore, you will also find a growing section of forgery identification pages
on this site. It doesn't quite relate to history, but identifying "classic" forgeries
from the beginning of the last century facinates me... Maybe it will facinate you
as well, so please take a look!
I would like to thank all of those who share information and pictures for this web site!
I am a member of the Norwegian
Philatelic Society.
