In my childhood I was a passionate stamp collector and still today I will often pick up some stamps as souvenirs when I travel, particularly when I visit what might be termed more obscure countries in the stamp collecting world. Continue reading “Korean Stamp Exhibition Hall – North Korean Stamps – Expect the Unexpected”
The Royal Mail
One of the few things you can buy, by way of souvenir, on Ascension Island is stamps and other philatelic items from the Post Office in Georgetown. I will refer to this again in a ‘shopping” review. Here I will relate a little about to-day’s and yesteryear’s stamps and mail services to the island. Continue reading “The Royal Mail”
Koryo Museum – Ginseng and Stamps
While you are visiting the Koryo Museum there are two shops, one within the museum complex and one just outside of it worthy a look. Continue reading “Koryo Museum – Ginseng and Stamps”
Not a lot to Buy
Shopping on St Helena
Let’s be honest. You are not going to spend six days on a ship to get to St Helena to shop. Being brutally honest, you would not come here for the purposes of shopping even if the trip was an hour long.
Ok, so what can you buy here? Continue reading “Not a lot to Buy”
The Post Office and Philatelic Bureau
The postal history of St. Helena extends back well before 1815 but it wasn’t until 1815 that the first Post Office was established on the Island shortly after which the first handstruck stamp was introduced. The first adhesive stamp, a 6d blue imperforate stamp portraying Queen Victoria, was issued on 1 January 1856. Continue reading “The Post Office and Philatelic Bureau”
The Rambling Wombat 