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With this website we try to inform stamp collectors like you about so-called Postal Wars in postal history. You are invited to contact us to ask questions.
NEW: MARCH 2021
Article: “Guerres postales contre les timbres-poste d’Israël 1967-81, W. Elsner” (Only in the french language)
NEW: JANUARY 2021
1950 Countermark of West Berlin blackened in the GDR.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2020
1932 Manchuria – USA, Australia, Singapore.
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2020
1959 Forged countermarks entmilitarisierte Stadt Berlin.
NEW: JULY 2020
1985-1987-1988 Iran-Afghanistan
NEW: JULY 2020
1986 IRAN 7 th. ANNIVERSARY OF RESISTANCE OF THE MUSLIM PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN.
NEW: MAY 2020
Article: “1950 Unkenntlichmachung von Propagandastempeln der DDR durch die Deutsche Bundespost.” (Only in the german language)
NEW: MAY 2020
1950: Political propagandapostmarks of the GDR blackened in West Germany!!
NEW: MARCH 2020
1914 Austrian and Hungarian field postcards blacked.
NEW: JANUARY 2020
1986 New return marks postage stamp Reichstag.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2019
“Postkriege bis 1948 – Historische Studien” Vortrag Konferenz “Post-Geschichte-Kommunikation” W. Elsner, Berlin nov. 2018 (article only in german language).
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2019
1959/60 World Refugee Year, metermarks.
NEW: JUNE 2019
1963 Nepal: postage stamps “Freedom from hunger” blackened in PR China.
NEW: MAY 2019
1932 Manchukuo, Japanese postoffices to China.
NEW: APRIL 2019
Addition to page 153/54: All different stickers of the Westgerman Post to explain returned mail from 1965.
NEW: FEBRUARY 2019
1959 Portugal “10 years NATO”
NEW: JANUARY 2019
1948-49 Postal war Berlin.
NEW: DECEMBER 2018
Article: 1965 Wie aus Rhodesiën Zimbabwe wurde. W. Elsner.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2018
1965-70 Rhodesia - Great-Britain, independence, (additional part).
NEW: OCTOBER 2018
The UPU regulation on the conditions to refuse to deliver mail.
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2018
1948 SOZ/GDR domestic rate on mail to Saarland.
NEW: JULY 2018
1900-13 Crete – Turkey: stamps not accepted.
NEW: JUNE 2018
FRG 1972 special postmark "Tag der Dantziger".
NEW: MAY 2018
1959 Greece – Rumania: postage stamp NIKH (= Victory)
NEW: APRIL 2018
1950-63 GDR Political propaganda postmarks blackened in West-Germany!
NEW: MARCH 2018
USA 1942-44 Flags overrun countries.
NEW: FEBRUARY 2018
FRG 1949 Tax stamp "Notopfermarke"
NEW: JANUARY 2018
Egypt, stamps for the withdrawal of french-british troops.
NEW: DECEMBER 2017
1949 Postal War of Berlin: Extra fee as a punitive measure, sticker of the West-Berlin Post.
NEW: NOVEMBER 2017
1967 Israel, Postage stamp "Let my people go"
NEW: OCTOBER 2017
1965 New items Federal Republic of Germany issue "20 Years of dispelled people"
NEW: SEPTEMBER 2017
1986 South Georgia+Sandwich Islands-Argentina, retour because of motifs on Falkland War: Prince Edward.
NEW: JUNE 2017
1985/86 FRG New return marks "40 years of the integration of dislodged people" - "Reichstag"
NEW: MAY 2017
1959 Greec postage stamps Imre Nagy refused in Hungary.
NEW: APRIL 2017
1955 BRD: new Retourmarks for the postage stamp "10 Years of dispelled people"
NEW MARCH 2017
1958 USA FDC metermark “Kossuth” refused in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
NEW: FEBRYARY 1, 2017
Returnmark postage stamps “Notopfer”, “17e Juni” and “10 Jahre Vertreibung” of the GDR false