A Place to Sell Your Stuff
A Place to Sell Your Stuff
The territory of the Kingdom of Prussia included the provinces of West Prussia; East Prussia; Brandenburg; Saxony; Pomerania; Rhineland; Westphalia; Silesia; Lusatia; Schleswig-Holstein; Hanover; Hesse-Nassau; and a small detached area in the south called Hohenzollern, the ancestral home of the Prussian ruling family.
Lourenco Marques was a Portuguese colonial province and is located in southeast Africa in the southern portion of Mozambique. It is presently known as Maputo.
Lourenco Marques was a Portuguese trader and explorer who was sent from Mozambique Island in 1544 to investigate two rivers to the south. He reported that beads could be traded for ivory and also that there were numerous herds of elephants in that area. Initially the bay was named after him.
The Portuguese began sending trading vessels from Mozambique Island but did not really venture far inland. A small fort was built but came under attack and was abandoned. Later another fort and trading post was built, named La Goa, which was manned by a single Catholic Friar and a few merchants. This was soon abandoned as well because of an entirely different reason…. swarms of mosquitoes.
Heligoland is a tiny archipelago in the southeastern corner of the North Sea.
The name Heligoland is generally thought to mean “Holy Land” but others believe it to mean “land of banks, which cover and uncover”. Originally property of the Danish king Valdemar it was inhabited by people who worked the sea and the copper mines on the island. It was also a haven for smugglers until the island turned into a resort for wealthy European clientele.
Ile Rouad, presently known as Arwad, is located two miles south of the coast of Latakia, Syria.
Arwad Island also called Arados, Arvad, Arpad, Arphad, Antiochia, Rouad, and Ruad Island is Syria’s only inhabited island. The island is no bigger than 0.2 km2 with being 800 meters from northwest to southeast corner and about 500 meters wide.
The island was settled in the early 2nd millennium BC by the Phoenicians. Under Phoenician control, it became an independent kingdom called Arvad Aradus, and it´s thought that it was one of the very first of the first known examples of a republic.
Not so much a country but a political division or province of Austria it was located on the upper area on the Italian Peninsular.
In 1910, the explorer Knud Rasmussen established a missionary and trading post in north-western Greenland, which he named “Thule” (later Qaanaaq).
Thule has given its name to the northernmost United States Air Force airfield, Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland, and to the smaller lobe of Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, visited by the New Horizons spacecraft (No stamps from there… yet).
The first European to arrive in the area was William Baffin, for whom Baffin Bay was named in 1616. While in the area, Baffin named several places, such as Wolstenholme Fjord, Smith Sound, and Wolstenholme Island. Thule had few other visitors until the late 1800s. The first group of Europeans to spend the winter in the area was the crew of the ship North Star. The bay is named after this ship.
Prince Edward Island, PEI for short, first residents were the Mi’kmaq. The Mi’kmaq first lived here about 2000 years ago and called the Island ‘Epekwitk’, meaning “resting on the waves”.
French explorers were the first Europeans to visit and settle the Island. Jacques Cartier described the Island as “…the fairest land ’tis possible to see!” The French called the Island “Île Saint-Jean.’ To the British, who later occupied the area, the Island was known as ‘St. John’s Island.’ The Island was renamed in 1799 as ‘Prince Edward Island’ in honor of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria.
Batum was the end of the line on the Transcaucasian railway so the town had an international flair. The port was always full of ships on their way to other places. Surrounding the town were large and dismal swamps and the town was known for a rich history having been a Greek Colony (Bathus), a fortified Roman fort, part of the Ottoman Empire and the last sea port annexed by Russia in 1878.
It is known as one of the places the young Joseph Stalin cut his teeth inciting protests, strikes and general unrest around 1901. Batum was also providing the world with 50% of its oil via a rickety pipeline over mountainous terrain from the Caspian Sea.
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The United States of Colombia (1862-85) consisted of nine original States: Antioquia, Bolivar, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Panama, Santander, Cauca, Magdalena, and Tolima. Although Magdalena and Cauca did issue stamps they are not in the Scotts catalog.
Most became sovereign states around 1858, by recognition as Estado de la Federación in the constitution of the Granadine Confederation. With the Constitution of 1886, the sovereign states became departments but continued with their postal services and stamps until 1906, when the national government took over all the services previously performed by the departments.
First Stamps, as follows:
The small quantity of stamps issued, the lithographic printing and the variety of papers used make Antioquia a very special and interesting area of Colombian philately. With many stamps no complete sheet exists and with some stamps the largest multiple is only a pair. There was often a very small quantity of stamps printed, only 258 of some and no more than 1,000 of others. Covers of that period are even scarcer than the classic Colombian covers that are recorded.
Only very few hand stamps (postal markings) were used, and most stamps were cancelled in manuscript with the name of the town of origin.
There are a lot of issues possible for the collector of Colombian States and I don’t think it is a very popular area to collect so there are opportunities there. Most are inexpensive although the scarcer issues are, obviously, more expensive.
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