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🇪🇨 Ecuador

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New examples extend census of Ecuador’s widely spaced Timbre Patriótico overprint

Actualidad Filatélica reports three additional examples of a two-millimetre spacing variety in Ecuador’s ten-centavo Timbre Patriótico overprint. Two are in Georg Maier’s collection and one in Ánge...

Why it matters

Three reported finds raise the described wider-spacing census from one example to four and revise the proposed explanation.

Updated2 Nov'26News date31 Oct'26Country🇪🇨 Ecuador

Enlarged blue Customs Service revenue-stamp detail showing the emblem and 100-won denomination.

🇰🇷 South Korea

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Korean revenue-stamp study links customs fees to a 1986 gazette notice

Ivo Spanjersberg’s Korea Stamp Society article of 28 October 2026 examines revenue stamps used for administrative fees by the Korea Customs Service. The illustrated material is an unused vertical p...

Why it matters

The study supplies a specific legal-document link for the fiscal use of the illustrated 100-won stamps.

Updated29 Oct'26News date28 Oct'26Country🇰🇷 South Korea

Publisher’s screenshot of an offer depicting yellow Sommerlinde 100-cent coil-stamp boxes.

🇦🇹 Austria

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Comparative study reports counterfeit Austrian Sommerlinde coil stamps

A comparative study reported by PHILAPRESS on 27 October 2026 examines counterfeits of Austria’s self-adhesive 100-cent Sommerlinde coil stamp and its packaging. The publisher says author Jürgen Ol...

Why it matters

Identifies a specific counterfeit coil-stamp and packaging study with a documented test-purchase method.

Updated30 Oct'26News date27 Oct'26Country🇦🇹 Austria

Anthony Bard’s table summarising eight recorded stencil types on 1952 prisoner-of-war covers, with known quantities and APO 100 dates.

🇰🇵 North Korea

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Korean War POW-mail study documents short-lived cachets and dove stencils

Anthony Bard’s study of Korean War prisoner-of-war mail identifies three straight-line POW-mail cachets recorded from 28 March to 11 April 1953, including red and black strikes and examples applied...

Why it matters

The study brings together archival covers and surviving correspondence to distinguish brief 1953 cachet usages from the 1952 stencil experiments.

Updated2 Nov'26News date24 Oct'26Country🇰🇵 North Korea

Auction 157 cover illustration of the Bohío stampless cover, with a printed 1885 description requiring date review

🇵🇦 Panama

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Auction catalogue reports an unrecorded Bohío marking on an 1886 cover

Latin American Philatelics describes a previously unrecorded BOHIO CANAL DE PANAMA marking in its postal auction 157 catalogue. Lot 887 is a stampless cover addressed to a contractor at Paraíso, be...

Why it matters

The catalogue illustrates a specific marking and identifies the reference works against which the dealer assessed it.

Updated22 Oct'26Event10 Oct'26Country🇵🇦 Panama

Philately News🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

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Rhodesian remainder-cancellation listing adds corrections and inverted-overprint detail

Adrian de Bourbon’s updated listing of remainder cancellations on British South Africa Company stamps extends the Rhodesian Study Circle’s Memoir 37 through September 2026. The study distinguishes ...

Why it matters

The revised tables separate corrections from new observations and isolate the inverted-overprint stamps for comparison.

Updated22 Oct'26Country🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Philately News🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe postmark checklist revised with office-status and scarcity information

The Rhodesian Study Circle has made available a September 2026 revision of its checklist of Zimbabwe’s postal establishments from 1980 to 2025. The study draws on six collections, further member co...

Why it matters

The revision links postmarks to changing postal establishments while explicitly qualifying its scarcity assessments.

Updated22 Oct'26Country🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

🇪🇨 Ecuador

Discovery

Ecuador cover study identifies United Nations wording on an OAS anniversary item

A study by Ángel Oleas Gallo illustrates a mismatch between Ecuador’s 1998 Organisation of American States anniversary stamp and its accompanying first-day material. The article was published on 18...

Why it matters

The comparison identifies specific design discrepancies in the cachet and cancellation associated with the OAS issue.

Updated22 Oct'26News date18 Oct'26Country🇪🇨 Ecuador

🇨🇷 Costa Rica

Discovery

Costa Rican postcard study traces an Alleghany and New York paquebot connection

Alfonso Molina Mainieri has published a study of a Costa Rican postcard addressed to H. Meyer aboard the German cruiser S.M.S. Vineta at Curaçao. The illustrated card combines Costa Rican franking,...

Why it matters

The study brings together identifiable ship, paquebot and arrival markings on a single maritime-mail item.

Updated22 Oct'26News date18 Oct'26Country🇨🇷 Costa Rica

🇪🇨 Ecuador

Discovery

Researchers report MOVIL overprint on Ecuador’s vermilion one-sucre telegraph stamp

Georg Maier and Juan Pablo Aguilar have reported an Ecuador revenue provisional with a black MOVIL overprint on the vermilion one-sucre telegraph stamp. Their illustrated study appeared on 18 Octob...

Why it matters

The illustrated specimen extends the reported base-colour combinations for this Ecuador revenue provisional.

Updated22 Oct'26News date18 Oct'26Country🇪🇨 Ecuador

Historical postal document reproduced in the Arezzo Conalbi postmark study.

🇮🇹 Italy

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Arezzo Conalbi postmark census receives twelve additional impressions

Roberto Monticini’s census of Conalbi postmarks used in Arezzo, prepared with Enrico Bettazzi, has been updated. The dated study is 8 October 2026; Il Postalista’s later notice identifies twelve ad...

Why it matters

The update adds documented impressions to a named local postmark census.

Updated20 Oct'26News date8 Oct'26Country🇮🇹 Italy

Reported counterfeit American Revolution pane, with a close-up of a stamp lacking the year.

🇺🇸 United States

Discovery

Counterfeit American Revolution pane lacks the year on all 25 stamps

Linn’s Stamp News has illustrated a counterfeit of the United States’ 2026 Figures of the American Revolution pane. Its report identifies a conspicuous difference: the year “2026”, printed on each ...

Why it matters

The illustrated missing-year diagnostic distinguishes a reported counterfeit from the genuine pane.

Updated22 Oct'26News date6 Oct'26Country🇺🇸 United States

Folded 1840 letter addressed to Frederick Huth & Co., London, with red AP28 1840 marking and Matanzas correspondence annotations.

🇨🇺 Cuba

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Study documents an 1840 Matanzas letter received in London on 28 April

Denys Yossell has documented a letter from Matanzas to Frederick Huth & Co. in London, connecting its arrival date with the introduction of British adhesive postage stamps. His study, published on ...

Why it matters

An illustrated private-collection letter provides a specific subject for further Cuban maritime postal-history research.

Updated5 Nov'26News date4 Oct'26Country🇨🇺 Cuba

Moradabad pre-1854 postal-mark census updated with new rarity picture for recorded handstamps

🇮🇳 India

Discovery

Moradabad pre-1854 postal-mark census updated with new rarity picture for recorded handstamps

A specialist census documenting India's pre-1854 hand-struck postal markings was updated on 31 August 2026 with refreshed evidence for several marks used at Moradabad in the former North-Western Pr...

Why it matters

The update provides evidence-based surviving-cover counts for scarce Indian pre-adhesive postal markings and identifies at least one listed mark for which no surviving cover is currently recorded.

Updated5 Sep'26News date31 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India

Philately News🇮🇳 India

Discovery

Rajamundry pre-stamp handstamp census refreshed with dated cover records

The Hand Struck Stamps research project updated its Rajamundry reference pages on 31 August 2026, adding a current census view of pre-1854 postal markings from the Madras Presidency office now asso...

Why it matters

The update provides fresh census evidence for Madras Presidency postal-history material and surviving-cover rarity.

Updated19 Oct'26News date31 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India

Philately News🇮🇳 India

Discovery

Azimgurh pre-1854 postal-mark census updated with surviving-cover evidence

A specialist census of India’s pre-1854 hand-struck postal markings was updated on 31 August 2026 with refreshed reference pages for Azimgurh, the historic spelling associated with modern Azamgarh....

Why it matters

The update adds current census evidence for scarce Indian pre-adhesive postal markings and known surviving covers.

Updated19 Oct'26News date31 Aug'26Country🇮🇳 India

Latest News

New examples extend census of Ecuador’s widely spaced Timbre Patriótico overprint

Korean revenue-stamp study links customs fees to a 1986 gazette notice

Comparative study reports counterfeit Austrian Sommerlinde coil stamps

Korean War POW-mail study documents short-lived cachets and dove stencils

Auction catalogue reports an unrecorded Bohío marking on an 1886 cover

Rhodesian remainder-cancellation listing adds corrections and inverted-overprint detail

Zimbabwe postmark checklist revised with office-status and scarcity information

Ecuador cover study identifies United Nations wording on an OAS anniversary item

Costa Rican postcard study traces an Alleghany and New York paquebot connection

Researchers report MOVIL overprint on Ecuador’s vermilion one-sucre telegraph stamp

Arezzo Conalbi postmark census receives twelve additional impressions

Counterfeit American Revolution pane lacks the year on all 25 stamps

Study documents an 1840 Matanzas letter received in London on 28 April

Moradabad pre-1854 postal-mark census updated with new rarity picture for recorded handstamps

Rajamundry pre-stamp handstamp census refreshed with dated cover records

Azimgurh pre-1854 postal-mark census updated with surviving-cover evidence

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