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A personal postcard, sent from Metula to Jaffa in April 1912, adds a small section to a fascinating historical story describing the first planned journey of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium students from Tel Aviv to learn about the Land of Israel. The postcard, preserved in the Alexander Collection, opens the door to the postal connections with the settlement of Metulah, as well as to a failed attempt by stamp collector to add stamp on a corrupted postcard.
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On April 24, 1947, Ethiopia Post issued its first special delivery postage stamps.
In cases where a subject can be presented in several ways, all of which are correct, the designer may choose the way he sees fit, but he is required to be consistent and not choose a different way for each of the stamps in the series.
A mechanical production technique that allows symmetrical patterns to be incorporated into the stamp design. This technique was used in 1840 to print certain elements of the Penny Black stamp, and has been used periodically since then in various stamp issues around the world.
An envelope sent on the island of Trinidad documents an attempt by the local charity to collect donations for the Red Cross during World War I. The course of events turned this activity into a philatelic curiosity.
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