Armenia to Zemstvo: A Philately Blog

This Blog is now closed but you can still contact me at patemantrevor@gmail.com. Ukraine-related posts have been edited into the book by Trevor Pateman "Philatelic Case Studies from Ukraine's First Independence Period", edited by Glenn Stefanovics. It is available in the USA from amazon.com and in Europe from me. The Russia-related posts have been typeset for hard-copy publication but there are currently no plans to publish them.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

British Society of Russian Philately

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I am down to present a display at the annual meeting of the British Society of Russian Phlately in London on 23 - 24 October. It's a dis...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010

How (Some) Modern Forgers Work

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There are different kinds of forgers. There used to be things called "Packet Maker Forgeries" which, as the name suggests, were fo...
Sunday, 26 September 2010

Ukraine Provisional stamps 1992 - Assessing status

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I dealt extensively in post Soviet material in the 1990s. Here are a few things that I learnt: 1. Postal supervision was weak after the coll...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Collect Transcaucasian Federation Stamps!

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I am sure that some collectors avoid the areas I specialise in just because there are so many fakes and forgeries. And I have been Blogging ...
Thursday, 19 August 2010

Podolia Tridents / Podillia Tridents - help please

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A dozen years ago, I had far too large a stock of the Tridents of Podilia / Podolia, most of it from remainder lots of the Vyrovyj collectio...
Monday, 16 August 2010

A Very Big Job for Serious Russian - area Philatelists...

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The break up of the Soviet Union transformed the philatelic world. Large quantities of material became available in Western Europe and Ameri...
Thursday, 12 August 2010

ARTAR or Zakiyan? Armenian revenue overprints

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I have always believed that when the Paris printers Chassepot prepared the first pictorial stamps of Armenia in 1920, they despatched only t...
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