Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Sun, 21 Jan 18 21:02:59 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Sun, 21 Jan 18 21:03:35 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post
Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Fri, 19 Jan 18 18:44:58 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Fri, 19 Jan 18 18:45:34 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post Jetliner First Flight... I think the last aeroplane flight I took was in the early ’70s in a Vickers Viscount powered b...
Post by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Wed, 17 Jan 18 19:23:47 +0000 View Full Post Ten a penny… The English expression “ten a penny” basically means that something is so common as to be practically wort...
Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Fri, 30 Sep 16 11:47:59 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Fri, 30 Sep 16 11:49:06 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post Topsy-turvy stamps… The philatelic term tête-bêche (French for “head-to-tail” or, more literally, “head-to-head”) defin...
Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Thu, 29 Sep 16 17:11:37 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Thu, 29 Sep 16 17:13:05 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post Large Hermes Heads...I received two Greek letters in the post this morning… not recent ones, though, but additions purch...
Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Wed, 21 Sep 16 16:08:39 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Wed, 21 Sep 16 16:09:39 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post German FeldpostmarkenThe German word ‘Feldpostmarken’ means ‘Field Post Cancel’ and was applied to all military mail pos...
Post by Ed Buziak (@edbuzz) on Tue, 20 Sep 16 18:34:46 +0000 Reposted by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Tue, 20 Sep 16 18:36:07 +0000 View Original Post View Full Post Ever been in a flap? A ‘Flip-Flap’ was something else! First the location... on this attractive postcard franked with a...
Post by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Thu, 14 Apr 16 09:58:04 +0000 View Full Post Isabella II and her many titles! The 3-year old Isabella became the Queen of Spain in 1833 on the death of her father, ...
Post by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Thu, 21 Jan 16 18:01:44 +0000 View Full Post Maximaphily… collecting Maximum Cards My postal history collection is mainly made up of envelopes or folded letters, st...
Post by Ed Buziak (@postalhistory) on Sun, 10 Jan 16 10:20:29 +0000 View Full Post Czechoslovakian mourning letter Although the above item was described as a ‘mourning’ letter - which I have a growing c...