Österreichischer Sammlerverein der Liechtensteinischen Philatelie
The cover of the month is a letter sent from Triesenberg in Liechtenstein to Muttenz / Baselland in Switzerland. Accordingly, it was a domestic letter in long-distance traffic and thus franked with a 20 centime stamp for long-distance traffic, appropriate for postage. The stamp is from a series of stamps with hunting motifs issued in Read More …
You would hardly believe it. But there are also stamps that read like a book. Even represent a small book. This “book stamp” appeared in 2010 on the occasion of the 75th Book Week in the Netherlands. The stamp in the form of a 3 by 4 centimeter book has 8 pages. The mini book Read More …
The stamp you can puzzle together this month, you can find in the blog for the stamp of the month of August. This time again a little easier, because the puzzle pieces do not have to be rotated, but there are some more of them.
Here we tell little stories about various individual philatelic items. The PDF can also be downloaded – if the font here on the homepage is too small. All you have to do is to click on the red heading. This will open the file with the description of the document. The PDF contains background information Read More …
Since Greenland became an autonomous country within the Danish Kingdom in 1979, after being a Danish colony since the early 18th century, many changes have been made to restore Greenlandic culture. This includes the revival of one of their ancestral traditions: tattooing. The new elegant stamps from Greenland now show such tattoos, namely kakiniit. Kakiniit Read More …
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the first Liechtenstein airmail stamps, a special helicopter flight was made from Vaduz to Zurich (Kloten) on 28 May 1960. This postcard was one of 11,816 covers sent as domestic mail either to Liechtenstein or Switzerland (4,971 covers went abroad) via this service. Since mail from Liechtenstein Read More …
Here we tell little stories about various individual items. The PDF can also be downloaded – if the font here on the homepage is too small. All you have to do is click on the red heading. This will open the file with the description of the document. The PDF contains background information on the Read More …
Beim Klicken auf die Überschriften gelangen Sie zur Liehtensteinischen Post mit noch mehr Informationen und Artikeln zu den einzelnen Ausgaben Princely treasures – castles and palaces These three stamps are part of the series “Treasures from the Princely Collections”. They are three gouaches (don’t worry, I had to read up on what they are: goauche Read More …
And it’s over again! – A short report This weekend the presentation of the block commemorating 150 years of the Feldkirch-Schaan-Buchs railway line took place. We from the ÖSVLPH were there with an information stand and three exhibits – The Vorarlberg Railway – Flora on the Railway Embankment – Railway Medicine. The event was well Read More …
A possible answer to this question that troubles many parents may be provided by an article published on April 28th in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers at Standford University. In their paper, they report that they scanned the brains of 7- to 16-year-olds in a computed tomography scanner while they listened to the voices Read More …