Literature On Greek Postal History (Part 3)

Some very detailed study on the "Hermes" head stamp written by Mr. Louis Fanchini, member of the Academie de Philatélie in France is available here (in french) and here (in english).

Check out as well the numerous articles in the bibliograpical section.

Some of Mr. Fanchini's conferences for the Académie and related to Greek Postal History are available online as well here. (french only)

Enjoy the read!

By the way Mr. Fanchini will give a conference on the Large Hermes Heads during Paris Philex on June 7th.

Literature on Greek Postal History (Part 2)

I checked Stampboards and found some posts dedicated on greek philately.

One concerns an identification of a cancelation :
http://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=60966&hilit=greece

Another concerns a stamps for prostitutes?
http://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29235&hilit=greece

The last one is the most interesting one as it's related to perforation varieties for the 1990 Prefecture definitives series :
http://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29377&hilit=greece

Recommended literature for this series !

My small collection of the Prefecture Stamps issued in 1990

Enjoy the read!

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.

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