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, 30 July 2020

The ROPiT Post office on Mont Athos 1915 - 1917

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A post office can continue to provide foreign mail services provided only a few conditions are met: 1.       It has premises and sta...

A Conversation with the Ottoman Postmaster of Mont Athos, 1883

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Athelstan Riley and a friend, both from the University of Oxford, visited Mont Athos for six weeks in 1883. Riley published a travelogue, ...
Sunday, 12 July 2020

The Multi-Lingual Ottoman Levant

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I am one of those lucky people whose mother tongue is English, a language in which I can expect to be understood world-wide. I have only ...
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Friday, 10 July 2020

ROPiT agency on Mont Athos in the Imperial Russian period.

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Click o Images to Magnify The ROPiT cachet or cancellation illustrated on these two items is not listed by Tchilingiri...
Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Auctions in the Time of Coronavirus

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As regular readers of this Blog will know, I sometimes do work as a describer for the Wiesbaden auction house of Heinrich Koehler. So I wa...
Friday, 8 May 2020

Assessing Cancellations from Internal Evidence

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Click on Images to Magnify How can you tell if a cancellation is a fake when you don’t have examples to compare it with which you k...
Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Just Published: Trevor Pateman, Philatelic Case Studies from Ukraine's First Independence Period

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Now available as a full-colour paperback: Philatelic Case Studies from Ukraine’s First Independence Period by Trevor Pateman ISBN ...
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