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The Pelteret Family

Philately

Philately is the study and/or collection of postage and revenue stamps, postal history and “cinderellas”. For the most part, these essays relate to material in personal collections.

1880 Oranje Vrij Staat Hospital Tax Hand-stamped Surcharge
2008-12-13

Rare Oranje Vrij Staat philately.

1923: Free City of Danzig (Gdansk) and Memel (Klaipeda)
2020-08-03
1944 Murnau Oflag VII A
2020-07-31

A Polish prisoner of war charity initiative in aid of the Polish Red Cross.

4th International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy
2020-07-31
Aerial Propaganda Leaflets of World War II
2020-07-31
Aidez La Croix Rouge Française ("Help the French Red Cross")
2020-07-31
Air Namibia
2020-07-31
Beaune Hôtel-Dieu
2020-07-31
Bechuanaland Rifles in Mafeking: A Soldier's Letter
2010-09-07
British Field Service Post Card
2017-01-12
Crocodile Pools
2008-12-13

Crocodile Pools: myth or reality?

Croix Rouge Serbe 1917 Field Post Service
2020-07-31
Displaced Persons Camp Hellbrunn Red Cross Fund-Raising Label
2020-07-31
Eaforce Bulletin - Addis Ababa
2020-07-31
Francois Johannes Joubert Eloff
2010-09-15

The Krom River Post Office and FJJ Eloff.

History of the Croatian Red Cross Society - 1878-1978
2020-07-31
History of the Serbian Medical Society (SLD) - 1872-1997
2020-07-31
Italian Occupation of Fiume and Kupa 1941-1942
2020-07-31
Italian Somaliland
2020-07-31
Knockaloe Aliens Camp
2010-08-16

Postal history.

Konzentrationslager-Dachau Allach
2020-07-31
Kran(t)zpoort, Transvaal
2008-12-13

Documenting a rare canceller (1911-1913).

Marshall Islands and Miss Letitia Rose
2008-12-13

Miss Letitia Rose, her Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) correspondence from the Marshall Islands. Family history.

Medical Philately: An Overview
2008-12-13

An overview of the hobby.

Medicine, the Modern Olympic Games and Philately
2008-12-13

The medical link to the origins of the Games.

Netherlands TB Prevention (1906)
2020-07-31
New South Wales 1897 Charity Issue
2020-07-31
Occupation Philately of Bohemia and Moravia
2020-07-31
Occupation Philately of Serbia
2020-07-31
Orange River Station Post-Office Canceller
2008-12-13

Rediscovering a lost post-office.

Petrus Jacobus Joubert (1834-1900)
2010-09-07

Postal stationery item (briefkaart algemeene postvereeniging) and PJ Joubert (1834-1900).

Philately of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Austro-Hungarian Military Post
2020-07-31
Philately of Occupied Montenegro
2020-07-31
Philately of Occupied Slovenia
2020-07-31
Philately of the Free Territory of Trieste
2020-07-31
Poland General Government
2020-07-31
Poland General Government
2016-11-27
Postal Stationery from a South African Attached to the Allied Central Mediterranean and Middle East Forces
2017-01-10

The narrative is based on an accumulation of correspondence from the World War II Central Mediterranean and Middle East war zone; the historical background and an interpretation of the collection. The Excel spreadhseet is a presentation of the data used in the narrative, allowing future expert reinterpretation.

Privilege Airletters and Envelopes
2020-07-31
Red Cross "Our Day" Flights - Make Your Sixpence Fly
2017-01-12
Red Cross Tax and Red Cross Tax Postage Due (Porto) Stamps
2020-07-31
Rhodes (Rodi) 1912 - 1945
2020-07-31
Royaume (De) Belgique Cinderella
2022-02-08
Ruhleben Prisoner of War Camp and Walter ("Wolly") Robert Neizel
2010-08-16
Rushen Internment Camp
2010-08-16

Postal history.

Slovakia Philately
2020-07-31
Stamps of the Oranje Vrij Staat
2008-12-13

Letetrs to the Journal of the Orange Free State Study Circle.

Supreme Headquarters - Allied Expeditionary Force
2020-07-31
The 1944 Olympic Movement and Polish Red Cross
2020-07-31
The Aegean Islands and Related Entities - 1912-1942
2020-07-31
The Graf Zeppelin
2020-07-31
The International Red Cross Message Service
2020-07-31
The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Philatelic Issues for the Whole Kingdom
2020-07-31
The St. John Ambulance Association, Malta
2020-07-31
The Times Weekly Edition
2008-12-16

The London newspaper in reduced format as it was produced during World War II.

Victoria 1897 Charity Issue
2020-07-31
Vladan Dordevic and the Serbian Red Cross
2020-07-31
Woldenberg Officers Camp Post (IIC) 1942-1945
2020-07-31
Woldenberg Officers' Camp Post
2016-11-27