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Rare stamps are sold individually. So if I can help you in completing your collection, just don’t hesitate to contact me. All the best, Eric.

Eric Thanks for the offer. I do not buy collections anymore, only targeted stamps. Good luck selling the collection.

Dear Gerben, I’m selling my “A stamp from everywhere / A stamp for every country” collection. If interested, please send me an email. Thanks. All…

Gedi Seems like we have something in common Thanks again for repeatedly sharing the information you have!

Gerben, I am interesting in the stamps of all world, I have many information about such stamps, but I am not expert of the stamps.…

Admir Thanks. I updated the profile. And added the islamic republic to my want list

Hi, Republic of The Gambia changed name to Islamic Republic of The Gambia in December 2015. Also, can you change “The membership will be cancelled…

Gedi Thanks. I now see Michel makes a note of this. One could of course speculate that this was because northern Latvia, at the time,…

Gerben, perhaps the following information will be usefull for you. 1. Mich#24. This stamp was printed and issued in North Latvia for use in North…

Gedi Thanks. Is this a part of the world in which you have a specific interest and expertise?

Gerben, the Cyrillic (official) spelling of Belarus is not Белaрусъ but Белaрусь. The difference between Ъ (hard sign) and Ь (soft sign) you can find…

Admir Thanks, your comments are much appreciated. I wish more visitors would take the time to contribute to the quality of StampWorldHistory.

I just want to help to create better site which is already for me most reliable resource for stamp history on the web. Best, Admir

Admir I guess, when one digs deeper than the two reference sites I commonly use for the flags, there is quite a bit of discussion…

But I found these two links showing green flag with white star: https://antiquarianauctions.com/lots/history-of-stellaland and https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Flag%20of%20Stellaland Also, I doubt about Burgers’ „Sovereign Flags of Southern Africa“…

Gedi Thank you for being such an attentive reader. Your comments are – as before – very much appreciated. I updated the profile accordingly. Vilno?…

Gerben, thank you for nice article about Lithuania and his stamps history. Perhaps the following my remarks will be useful for you. 1. Currency 1918-1922.…

Admir Thanks you for your kind words. I think the flag is correct – at least for the period in which Stellaland issued stamps. Stellaland…

Hi, I think this is wrong flag of Republic of Stellaland. Based on online resources at that time official flag was green with a white…

Admir Welcome back. I am familiar with the map. It is also in the Scott Stamp Atlas by the same authors. As you already imply…

Hi, After couple months I’m back again. In fact I found today one interesting map of Portuguese Congo in The Philatelic Atlas (Hlinka & Mucha,…

William Thanks for the suggested resources. I am familiar with the sites. They are great resources, that I regularly use. They are not on my…

These are sites I have found helpful: Ask Phil. This site is a philatelic glossary of immense size. Unfortunately some of the letter links do…

Norm Thank you for your highly informative response. In my research, I had not come across the fact that Tete was first established as a…

Hi! Your site has been a great help to me for a classic era project I’m working on. While investigating Mozambique, I think I may…

William Thanks for not letting off so easy I looked into it a little deeper and, in the German ‘Grosses Lexikon der Philatelie’, found…

My point is that there is no city of Saipan on the island (and never was) as map implies, the entire island is a municipality.…

Jim Thanks for checking in. I envy you for having visited Iceland …….

William Thanks for elaborating on this. In the Australia profile I refer to the profiles of the Australian stamp issuing territories. I think, that, with…

William Thanks. Manila is spelled Manilla in Dutch. It odd how sometimes Dutch creeps in when writing the profiles…..