Literature on Greek Postal History (Part 1)

Besides the bibliographical works mentioned by my fellow blogger Nicolas on his (french) blog called "Philatélie Hellénique", as well as his own blogposts which are real helpful and very instructive, a beginner like me always looks around the net what kind of (specialised) literature might be available to help cultivate once knowledge of Greek Stamps.

You have a nice introduction on Greek Postal History at Wikipedia.

But of course Jim Jackson of the Big Blue 1840-1940 blog has written three detailed articles on Greek Postal history.

The first one written on June 14th 2012 is dedicated to the Hermes heads series :
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.fr/2012/06/greece-hermes-heads.html

Hardly a week later Jim wrote about the greek stamps issued between 1896 and 1940 :
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.fr/2012/06/greece-1896-1940.html

And he finished (for the moment?) his quest into greek stamps with a an article on AirPost, Postage Due, Postal Tax and Balkan Wars :
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.fr/2012/06/greece-air-post-postage-due-postal-tax.html

Check these articles out if you want to learn more about greek stamps.

Links will be posted on the left of the bog in the 'Philatelic Links' section.

Enjoy!

* Part 1 : the author hopes to be able to concentrate a maximum of articles on greek stamps on this blog, so more articles (when found and freely available on the net) on this subject might be posted in the (near) future.

Hercules Deeds - Hercules and Geryon

Ancient Greek Art stamps on Olympic Torch Flight

Olympic Torch Flight Cover from Athens to Australia canceled on November 2nd 1956.

The cover has two stamps :

Voyage of Dionyssos

                                                          

Bust of Homer

                                     
Both were issued on July 10th 1955 and are part of the Series of Ancient Greek Art.
 
Here are the stamps from the cover and the postmark in detail which is nice as such but misses a bit of ink.