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.

Saturday, 28 March 2015

One in a thousand? One in ten thousand? One in a hundred thousand?

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From very early on in the postage stamp era, there have been stamp issues - often perfectly genuine ones - where the proportion of stamps pr...
Saturday, 14 March 2015

Soviet Use of Ukrainian Stamps in 1920

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Click on Images to Magnify Here are two Money Transfer Forms used into Russia proper ( Samara and Tver guberniyas) from Soviet U...
Wednesday, 11 March 2015

The Indefatigable V. V. Tarasoff of Solombala, Archangel

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Click on Images to Magnify Anyone who collects Russia postal history from 1917 through the 1920s will, at some point, come acr...
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Monday, 9 March 2015

Last Post: Bolshevik Russia to Foreign Destinations 1918

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Click Images to Magnify I have blogged previously about the fact that Bolshevik Russia offered NO mail service to foreign desti...

Russia 1917 Imperial Arms Imperforates - Earliest Dates of Use

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Click on Images to Magnify Michael Kuhn in Germany answered my earlier request for examples of earliest dates of use of Imperi...
Saturday, 7 March 2015

Russia 1917 Imperial Arms 10 Rouble Imperforate: When and Where was this stamp distributed?

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There is a certain fascination in Top Values - and from 1906 until 1921, Russia's top value was the 10 rouble Imperial Arms stamp in red...
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...
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