AJ's Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links
.- Ubangi-Chari- (or Shari) 1915-1931 (ultimately Gabon) - Download Album Pages: - $5 a year for all the countries you can eat!
- Free Album Pages? This site is sort of like "shareware" software.
Téléphone (+256 41) 234 056
Téléfax (+256 41) 346 450
Téléfax (+256 41) 232 564
Téléfax (+256 41) 234 056
From UPU
and The UN lists them as their offical distributor there.
The first postage stamps were issued in 1895. From 1903 until 1962 stamps of Uganda and Tanganyika were used.
Uganda Directorate of Postal Services
Stamps Bureau, Section
Box 7106
Kampala, Uganda
Agency: Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp. (see below)
460 West 34th Street,New York, NY 10001
Telephone: (212) 629-7979, Fax: (212) 629-3350
e-mail igpc@igpc.net
Also with offices in London, Paris, Israel, Africa, Hong Kong
Email: <City/NationName>@igpc.net
Stamps were issued by the Ukraine from 1918 to 1919 and again since 1991
By Mail:
Ukrposhta (cf.)
22 Khreshchatyk Street
Kyiv 252001
Ukraine
By Fax: +380 44 2287969
By E-mail: vlakuk@ukrp.viaduk.net
marka_ukrainy@ukrp.viaduk.net (stamps)
note: 'marka' seems also to produce and sell Russian stamps... aj
Ukraine, 252001, Kyiv,
Khreschatyk Str.,22
UOPS " Ukrposhta" (cf.)
Center-Publishing House "
Marka Ukrainy''
tel./fax 38 044 229 21 82
The price of the Catalogue for private persons and organizations is 5.00 USD, delivery payment excluding.
The "Catalogue of postage stamps of Ukraine" of 1997 is the most complete and systematic issue presented Ukrainian postage stamps, envelopes, cards with original stamp, and first day cancels.
Since 1991; Ukraine has been able to exist as an independent country. Through the use of stamps, Ukraine's history, culture and traditions will be explained. In addition, we want this WWW site to be the comprehensive source about all aspects of contemporary Ukrainian philately and philatelic history. ...
Contents include:
Postal Eras
New Stamp Issues
Postal Rates
Currency values
-links to other sites
The VESNA Stamp Catalog - This catalog provides to the user a current listing and values of stamps that have been issued since 1992. Covering: Regular Issues, Semi-Postal Issues, Provisional Issues (this is history- aj)
POSTAL STATIONERY and POST CARDS -This site provides for you a comprehensive listing of all postal stationery plus denominational post cards issued since 1992. Please note: This part of the site has many images with large file sizes. It is adviseable to have a fast InterNet connection to see them properly.
STATISTICS - Are you interested in knowing how many stamps or postal stationery have been issued?
FIRST DAY OF ISSUE - Are you interested in knowing what First Day covers have been issued?
-YARMAROK - Are you interested in buying or selling any Ukrainian stamps?
-Search - by major subject categories.
Do you want us to contact you when new postal stamps have been issued? Send us an e-mail ...
Zabijaka
PO Box 3711
Silver Spring Maryland 20918
Ph. 301-593-5316
FAX 301-593-5316
email: bnm123@erols.com
.- Umm Al Qiwain - Download Album Pages: - $5 a year for all the countries you can eat!
- (later: United Arab Emerites) - Free Album Pages? This site is sort of like "shareware" software.
Stamps were first issued by the United Arab Emirates in 1972.
Philatelic Bureau (cf.)
Box 8888
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Agency:
Interpost, Box 378, Malverne, NY 11565
Abu Dhabi | Ajman (1964 - 1970) | Dubai | Fujairah
Ras al Khaimah | Sharjah | Umm al Qiwain | Yemen
Dealers, information sources, and assorted links
A List of Books and Articles | A Bruce Condé bibliography
former: Trucial States, abbreviation: UAE
Independence: 2 December 1971 (from UK)
And from Linn's: Agency:
Interpost
Box 378
Malverne, NY 11565
Migrations and settlements resulted in this insular Celtic nation that was invaded by Rome in 1 AD. The Romans withdrew in the 5th century and the islands were constantly attacked by Scandinavian tribes.
The tribes were united under the King of Wessex in the 10th century. England united with Wales in 1536. England and Scotland joined by the Act of Union in 1707. Ireland officially joined Britain in 1801.
The Irish Free State in 1922 and the country became officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom was the first nation to issue postage stamps on May 6, 1840. Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, and the Isle of Man each issue their own postage stamps.
The United Kingdom also controls the following British Dependent Territories: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands (includes South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands), Gibraltar, Hong Kong until 1997, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena and Dependencies and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha are dependencies of Saint Helena.
Each of these territories currently issue postage stamps. (see: Territories list)
Independence: England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union between England and Wales was enacted under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284; in the Act of Union of 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanent union as Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801 adopting the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927.
National holiday: Celebration of the Birthday of the Queen (second Saturday in June)
Also the data has not been updated in a number of years.. - others are needed to continue this task.
ftp sites for the WPID data: (c.1999) (cf.)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/mail/stamps/wpid/
ftp://ftp.cviog.uga.edu/pub/exchange/jackson/miscel/
To enter new information contact the co-ordinator J. M. Myerson (71054.546@compuserve.com.)
Computers in Philately Committee
c/o Lois M. Evans-de Violini, Chairperson
P. O. Box 5025, Oxnard, CA 93031 USA
e-mail: lmevans@rain.org
Bath (link)
Cambridge
Channel Islands
Colne
Huddersfield
Isle of Man
Leeds
Llangollen
London (several)
Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London SW1 (link)
and more...
especially :
Royal Philatelic Society
41 Devonshire Place
London W1N 1PE
tel: +44 171 486 1044
fax: +44 171 486 0803
A first class private library covering the whole world. Perhaps more monographs than at the National Philatelic Society. Also home to many of the Perkins Bacon records and an interesting museum of historic philatelic artefacts. Entry is usually restricted to society members and their guests. Therefore the library and museum are not operated as a public service, although charitable status does mean the society can accommodate some visitors.
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"Related pages:"
- My general introduction to postcodes.
- The Royal Mail web pages, now including postcode searching.
- FULL UK-wide postcode searching by AFD (definitely recommended).
- Searchable UK Postcode list by Brainstorm.
Postmaster
The Valley
Anguilla, BWI
Postmaster
Georgetown, Ascension Island
Stamps are produced by the
Crown Agents Stamp Bureau
Old Inn House, 2 Carshalton Road
Sutton, Surrey SM1 4RN, United Kingdom
United Nations Postal Administration,
Box 5900, Grand Central Station,
New York, NY 10163-9992
USA
and from Graeme Sherman's Home Page - source for "Philatelic Museums & Libraries data " a U.N. Postal Museum:
United Nations Philatelic Museum,
Palais des Nations Unies,
Porte 39,
CH-1211 Geneva 10
:
Has all UN stamp issues, first day covers etc. in Austrian schilling, Swiss franc and USA dollars.
Also the Prof. Charles Misteli thematic collection of 11,000 items covering League of Nations, early International Labour Office and other UN agencies.
see also: SWITZERLAND which printed stamps for the United Nations and various of its organizations (and the UPU).
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Also the data has not been updated in a number of years...- others are needed to continue this task.
ftp sites for the WPID data: (cf.)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/mail/stamps/wpid/
ftp://ftp.cviog.uga.edu/pub/exchange/jackson/miscel/
To enter new information contact the co-ordinator J. M. Myerson (71054.546@compuserve.com.)
Computers in Philately Committee
c/o Lois M. Evans-de Violini, Chairperson
P. O. Box 5025, Oxnard, CA 93031 USA
e-mail: lmevans@rain.org
AUSTRALIA
Stanley Stamp Service
P.O. Box 1025
Bundaberg, Qld. 4670
Tel: 071-525 276
Fax: 071-521 558
BANGLADESH
Salam Stamp Centre
68, Kazi Nazrul Islamd Avenue
Dhaka-1215
Tel: 88-02-9115825
E-mail: ssalam@megsinet.net
BOTSWANA
Botswana Postal Services
Poso House
P.O. Box 100
Gaborone
Tel: 353131
Fax: 313599
BRAZIL
Alfredo and/or Ruth Marcus
Rua Manoel da Nobrega, 1230
09910-720 Diadema - SP
Tel: 011-713-5255
Fax: 011-456-6209
INDONESIA
Mr. Thung Kim Tek
Indonesian Philatelists Association
Jalan Joesoef Adiwinata S.H. no. 24
Jakarta 10350
Tel: 62-021-326981
Fax: 62-021-3909588
ISRAEL
Mougrabi Stamps
5 Pinsker Street
Tel Aviv 63323
Tel: 5289012
Fax: 00972-3-5251240
JAPAN
Japan Philatelic Agency
4-23, 1-Chome, Mejiro
Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171
Tel: 81-3-5951-3433
Fax: 81-3-5951-3431
E-mail: jpa@japan.email.ne.jp
NEW ZEALAND
(Customers residing in New Zealand only)
Philatelic Bureau
Private Bag
(60 Ridgway Street)
Wanganui
Tel: 64-6-3457999
Fax: 64-6-3457120
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
China National Philatelic Corporation
Hepingmen
Beijing 100051
Tel: 0086-10-66060169
Fax: 0086-10-66060211
SINGAPORE
James Song Philatelics
317 Outram Road
#02-22 Concorde Hotel Shopping Centre
Singapore 169075
Tel: 65-733-3992
Fax: 65-733-4177
E-mail: jamesong@cyberway.com.sg
Retail Store Hours
Tuesday - Saturday: 10.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Sunday: 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
UGANDA
Uganda Posts & Telecommunications
Corporation
Post Office Headquarters
Stamp Bureau
P.O. Box 7106
title
Kampala
Tel: 256-41-246359
Fax: 256-41-245907
Links offered:
UN Home | UNPA Home | About UN Stamps | New Stamp Issues | View New Stamp Issues | Kids | Coming Attractions | View Stamps & Products | Order | On-line Ordering | Subscribe | Free Info
(note: offers German and French as well)
Sales counters in NY, NY - Concourse level of the:
General Assembly Building
1st Avenue and 45th Street
New York City
To confirm counter hours, visitors can call (212) 963-7698.
Postverwaltung der Vereinten Nationen
Internationales Zentrum Wien
Postfach 900
A-1400 Wien - Vereinte Nationen
Österreich
Tel: 43-1-26060/4032/43-1-26060/4025
Fax: 43-1-26060/5825
E-mail: UNPA-Europe@unov.un.or.at
the UNPA Geneva office processes orders for customers in all other parts of Europe:
Administration postale des Nations Unies
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Genèva 10
Suisse
Tel: 41-22-917 38 11
Fax: 41-22-917 00 24
E-mail: jjousson@unog.ch
Starting with July 1, 1847, the United States government issued postage stamps.
Philatelic Fulfillment Center
Box 419636
Kansas City MO 64179
or:
8300 Underground Drive, Pillar 210
Kansas City, MO 64144-9998
Phone:1-800-STAMP-24
The center accepts credit card orders by telephone at:
1-800-782-6724 or 1-816-545-1212
Ask To obtain official news releases and other information from the United States Postal Service.
And some Tips from: http://www.stingraystamps.com/tips.htm
The Washington and Franklin Head stamps prove to be the most difficult for new collectors to tell apart. There are different perfs and you can use a perfgauge to determine what the perforations are. There are different types, which a good magnifying glass will determine which is which, but what do you use to tell a rotary press stamp From a flat plate press stamp? There is a thing called a Marshall's "Phil-O-Meter" gauge which if you can find one is very handy for determining this. It is also great for determining rotary press from flat plate press stamps on cover. Unfortunately, they haven't made this gauge since 1979, but some supply dealer have them if you check. A simple way to do this is to paste a used copy of a catalog number 405,406, 424 or 425 down on a piece of cardboard. Keep in mind that rotary press stamps are wider and longer than flat plate stamps. Take a stamp of the Washington/Franklin types and place it exactly over the 405, 406, 424 or 425. If it matches the exact width and length as the 405 stamp, then it is a flat plate printing. If the stamp in question is a millimeter or two larger either horizontally or vertically, then it is a rotary press stamp. AND: Early stamps were engraved, just like our paper currency.
Starting with Scott Catalog No. 525 the USPOD began having the Bureau of Engraving and Printing use offset presses for a while. How do you tell the difference between offset issues and engraved stamps the easy way?
Very simple. Turn the stamp face up. With your fingernail gently move across the face of the stamp. If your fingernail sticks while moving across the stamp, it is line engraved. If your fingernail slides easily over the face of the stamp and the stamp face has a "soapy" feel to it, it is an offset stamp.
Independence: 4 July 1776 (from England)
Also the data has not been updated in a number of years... - others are needed to continue this task.
ftp sites for the WPID data: (cf.)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/mail/stamps/wpid/
ftp://ftp.cviog.uga.edu/pub/exchange/jackson/miscel/
To enter new information contact the co-ordinator J. M. Myerson (71054.546@compuserve.com.)
Computers in Philately Committee
c/o Lois M. Evans-de Violini, Chairperson
P. O. Box 5025, Oxnard, CA 93031 USA
e-mail: lmevans@rain.org
And more from stingraystamps.com (now '404')
One of the greatest joys of collecting United States stamps is the fact that there is almost always an enjoyable and intriguing story behind them. There are, for instance, great tales behind the discovery of some of our major errors as with the 24-cent inverted airmail stamp of 1918, which was purchased by a stamp collector in Washington, D.C. In 1869, after the U.S. Post Office Department had been issuing stamps depicting our Founding Fathers for 22 years (since our first stamps in 1847), a decision was made to change the format of America's postage stamps from rectangular to square—and depict not only Washington, Franklin and Lincoln, but pictorial designs such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Thus the definitive issue of 1869 was born. With four of the stamps printed in two colors, it is considered today to be one of our most beautiful sets. But people didn't think so in 1869! In fact, there was a giant public outcry when the 1869's were issued. People didn't like the smaller format and they especially didn't like the pictorial depictions on the stamps.
Newspapers all over the country published editorials in protest of their issuance. The POD was aghast at what they had done and immediately went back to the drawing boards to produce a brand new issue.
Consequently, the 1869's were only in formal use for less than a year. They were replaced in 1870 by what many deemed as a rather boring set of formal bust-like depictions of famous Americans. Best of all, though, the lovely 1869's are still within the budgetary reach of most collectors. They are tiny colorful jewels on an album page and, contrary to when they were issued, they are very, very popular with philatelists!
Menu:
General Issue and Provisional Govt.
Official Stamps
Kahului Railroad Company
Revenue Stamps
Post Cards and Envelopes
Registered Mail
Forgeries
History of the Hawaiian Monarch
Resources
Links
loaded with images... aj
Postage stamps and postal history of the United States
The history of postal service of the United States evolved from stampless letters, whose cost was borne by the receiving person,
to letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and then on to letters bearing adhesive postage stamps.
Ship captains arriving in port with stampless mail would advertise in the local newspaper names of those having mail and for them
to come collect and pay for it, if not already paid for by the sender.
The postal history of the United States was rather haphazard until after the Revolutionary War, when eventually a national postal system was established. Stampless letters, paid for by the receiver, and private postal systems, continued until the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847 in the denominations of five and ten cents. . . (Wikipedia)
A brief feature list (as of TMS version 2.1):
- Street-level detail for the entire United States.
- Counties and States for the entire United States
- Cartographic design, including color, fills, and line styles, all able to be altered by the arbitrary scale.
- Users can turn individual layers on and off. This is not yet integrated into the map browser, though.
- Open interface to images (through mapgen script), allowing any user to request maps directly to inline in other documents.
- Map Browser interface, allowing users to view and browse the map database.
- Markers can be placed on the map by geographic coordinates (lat/lon). In fact, if a Web publisher has a series of points to display, this can be done with a marker file
- Creation of a legend/scale box, as a separate image.
- Reverse Coordinate Decoding, allowing a user to send a pixel coordinate (x,y) from the map and get the associated real-world coordinate. This makes interactive map-based applications using this service viable.
- Integration of a US Gazetteer, allowing users to search for a place, county, or zip code to display.
-Basic labelling of places, using a unique formula to determine relative importance of cities for selection. (v1.3)
- Creation of thematic maps based on 1990 Census Statistical data. (v2.0)
Please email comments and suggestions to: TMS@Census.GOV
Frank Sente (flsente@stamps.org)
P.O. Box 8000
State College PA 16803 USA
PHONE (814) 237-3803
FAX (814) 237-6128
Carl Albrecht calbrech@infinet.com
Membership Chairman
(Dept. P), P.O. Box 82252
Columbus, OH 43202
Membership - Mail to: Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 2641, Reston, VA 20195 == or visit here is best.
CHAIRMAN: Roland Austin
email: RAustin13@aol.com
E-mail to Compuserve 72531,1414;
the Internet: AFDCS@aol.com
or: America Online - AFDCS
(THE most often cited source on the 'net - aj.)
Phone: 516-385-4647
FAX: 516-385-4655
email: ereiser@pb.net
Hours of Business: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Saturday
email: coughlin@teleport.com (hmmm...)
I found his language a bit off but... aj
P.O. Box 130, Tryon, NC 28782
(I've had good results here - aj)
James J. Reeves, Inc.
P.O. Box 219-OL
Huntingdon, PA 16652-0219
We are a member of:
American Philatelic Society.
Box 8000 State College, PA 16803
Phone (814) 237-3803
American Stamp Dealer's Association,
3 School St, Glen Cove, NY 11542-2548
Phone (516) 759-7000
American Numismatic Association
818 N. Cascade Ave.
Co. Springs, CO 80902
Phone (719) 632-2646
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For references contact
Coin World
PO Box 150, Sidney, OH 45365
800-673-8311
Krause Publications
700 E. State Rd., Iola, WI 54990
800-573-0333
Coin Magazine
4880 Market St., Ventura, CA 93003
805-644-3824
- Upper Senegal-Niger - Download Album Pages: - $5 a year for all the countries you can eat!
- (later 'French Sudan') - Free Album Pages? This site is sort of like "shareware" software.
- Upper Silesia 1920-1923 (Germany, Poland ..) - Download Album Pages: - $5 a year for all the countries you can eat!
- Free Album Pages? This site is sort of like "shareware" software.
- Upper Volta 1920-1984 - See: Burkina Faso
and from Fabio's '47 emails..'
filatelia@correo.com.uy
Oficina Filatelica
Direccion Nacional de Correos
(cf.)
CC 296, Montevideo
Uruguay
Postage stamps have been issued since 1856
Direccion National de Correos
Departamento de Filatelica
(cf.)
Casilla de Correo 1296
Montevideo, Uruguay
see also the Postal Authority's list below.
Círculo Filatélico
Constituyente Tel 401 3452
Club Filatélico
Mercedes, 1540 Montevideo
Academia de Filatelia
Casilla de Correos N° 850 Montevideo
Telefax 7087285
Asociación de Cronistas Filatélicos
Bvr. Artigas 607/201 CP,
11300 Montevideo - Uruguay
Federación Uruguaya de Filatelia
Uruguay 1333 ap.101, Montevideo
Grupo Filatélico Temático
Casilla de Correos N° 443 Montevideo - Uruguay
Unión de Filatelistas Temáticos
Casilla de Correos N° 6369 CP
11000 Montevideo - Uruguay
Asociación Filatélica de Salto
Rivera 1234 Salto - Uruguay
Encuentro Filatélico- AFISAN
Setembrino Pereda 694 Paysandú
.
Filatelic Sales office of postal authority:
Sales Office:
(cf.)
Misiones 1328 1er. Piso.
Tel.: (598-2) 916 02 00/07 int. 112
C. C. 1296 - CP. 11000
Montevideo
República Oriental del Uruguay
Email: Filatelia@correo.com.uy
Stamps have been issued by Tadjikistan since 1992
(no addres available yet) aj
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