Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog

This Blog is now closed but you can still contact me at patemantrevor@gmail.com. Ukraine-related posts have been edited into a book "Philatelic Case Studies from Ukraine's First Independence Period" edited by Glenn Stefanovics and 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.

Sunday, 24 April 2011

More about single handstamps: Romania 1862 handstruck issue

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I blogged recently about how multiples make single handstamps more interesting. Below is a complete sheet of Romania 1862 issue, 6 Parale in...
Thursday, 14 April 2011

Collecting Single Handstamps: Armenia, Ukraine

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Between 1919 and 1923, EVERY issued Armenian stamp is overprinted with a single handstamp - framed Z, unframed Z, rouble surcharges, Gold Ko...

Armenia: Chassepot Proofs without figure of value

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Some years ago, I bought a collection which contained four unusual Chassepot proofs. They were single Die Proofs of the Eagle design but wit...
Friday, 1 April 2011

Paul Melik-Pacha / Pachaev / Pasher / Pachaian / Pachayan: A Discovery

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In all the histories of Armenian philately, the name of Paul Melic-Pacha [ to use for a moment his own spelling when he signed sheets of sta...
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Russia's Second (1990s) Inflation

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When I began dealing in the early 1990s, the most interesting thing I did was to get quantities of office-to-office and factory-to-factory ...
Sunday, 20 March 2011

More about 1919 Armenia "k 60 k" overprints

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Back in December, I blogged about the first stamp of independent Armenia. Now I illustrate the state of my stock - see below. From a stockbo...
Friday, 18 March 2011

1919 Formation of the Western Army

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This cover and card illustrate how Western Army (Avalov-Bermondt)forces assembled in Jelgawa during the summer of 1919. The early August 191...
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