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.

Monday, 23 February 2015

Ukraine Tridents Unlisted by Seichter or Bulat

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It seems to be a never-ending task to catalogue Ukraine Tridents. None of the catalogues can claim to be complete. Neither Dr Seichter in hi...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

Ukraine Tridents - The Punch Hole Question

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Every collector knows that for classic imperforate stamps, you must pay more for a four margin copy than for a three margin copy, more for a...
Friday, 20 February 2015

Their Post Offices and Ours

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The Old Post Office, Tintagel, Cornwall, England Some years ago I realised that when I thought of a post office, I thought of somet...
Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Russia 1917 - 23: Speculative stamp issues and Fantasy issues

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Recently (2 February) I blogged about non-speculative stamp issues in the 1917 -23 period and gave some examples. Speculative stamp issues c...
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Monday, 16 February 2015

Ukraine Tridents - The Importance of Raritan Catalogs

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Back in 2011, I prepared the late Ron Zelonka's Ukraine collection for sale by Corinphila, Zurich. It was so vast that, inevitably, much...
Sunday, 15 February 2015

Armenia: First Yessayan set 1922 - Forged Overprints

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Most forged overprints on First Yessayan stamps are easy to detect: either they are on forged basic stamps or the overprints are very diffe...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

Azerbaijan 1922 Postmaster Provisionals - Kusovkin Reprints

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Click on Image to Magnify In his Azerbaijan handbooks published over 20 years ago, Dr Ceresa established that the 1922 Postmaster P...
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