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What Can Be Done: There are five Provinces of Canada that issued their own postage stamps before confederation. All but Newfoundland had joined the Canadian Confederation by 1872. Newfoundland continued issuing its own postage stamps until 1949 when it also joined the confederation. The stamps of Newfoundland are very popular and deservedly so. They are […]

What Can Be Done: Mexico is one of the most complicated and difficult countries to collect. Some areas, like Germany, are difficult to collect at an advanced level but fairly easy to assemble a nice, comprehensive, specialized collection by Scott. Mexico is complex at every level.  First, there are an enormous number of very rare

What Can Be Done: The stamps of Mecklenburg-Schwerin are interesting, and, as a philatelic specialty, fairly easy to both collect and complete. There are fewer than a dozen stamps, a factor that always makes for easy collecting. There are a couple that sell for a hundred dollars or more and none which are cheap.  

What Can Be Done: Mecklenburg-Strelitz is one of the easiest of the world’s countries to complete. There are only six stamps that were issued by that country. Mecklenburg Strelitz was an unimportant Duchy that maintained an uneasy independence from the more prominent Mecklenburg-Schwerin (A story that underscores Mecklenburg Strelitz’s unimportance was that when Britain’s George

What Can Be Done: Philately has its strongest roots in Central Europe. At one time, there were over 20,000,000 stamp collectors in Germany and Switzerland alone. But more than just numbers of collectors, the German speaking peoples approach the hobby with a thoroughness and dedication that is unparalleled in the rest of the world. As

What Can Be Done: Honduras is one of the most philatelically interesting countries in the world. The first issues have a wonderful, primitive appeal. They are very rare but not very expensive. The later nineteenth century and twentieth century is loaded with scarce and difficult to find varieties. Printing methods and printers were unsophisticated in

What can Be Done: Hannover is one of the more interesting of the German States to collect. The number of stamps issued is manageable (there are 29 stamps as listed by Scott), and none of them are particularly expensive or rare. What is appealing about specializing in Hannover is that it offers a very varied

What Can Be Done: Hamburg was and is one of the most populous, active, and commercial cities in the world. From the Middle Ages onward, Hamburg, through its membership in the Hanseatic league, was involved in and had a controlling interest in North Atlantic trade. Because the communication needs of such a significant city state

What Can Be Done: Guatemala is the most popularly collected country in Latin America. It has an active collector’s society of specialists and considerable specialized literature. The philately itself is not very difficult. The nineteenth century issues are very manageable and not too expensive. The twentieth century is quite easy to collect, and the airmails