Travis
thanks. That makes some sense
The 49 stamps were clearly in Szyk's "cartoonish" style if you look at his other works whereas the 52 stamps are much more "traditional" in design
I've come across a reference that links Bileski to Szyk so that…
Thanks Travis
Seems they started out as booksellers/stationers and branched out into engraving and then lithography. As far as I know in terms of stamps they only ever produced the first few sets of Liberia
Wonder how they got the contract given th…
Well, not many takers on Feldwick
How about Dando Todhunter & Smith who produced the first Liberia stamps?
Someone must be able to add to what we know
Thomas F. Todhunter, Richard J. Dando and John Henry Smith as partners in a business as boo…
Hi Martin
thanks. I'm familiar with both of these. I've been able to confirm Feldwick's address using London trade directories
Does Hessler cite any source or any more information?
Cockrill speculates that given Feldwick's name appears on the 1c a…
Martin
in case you can squeeze this into your Encyclopedia here's a connection between Scottish haggis (recently consumed in great quantities here for Burns night celebrations) and the pygmy hippo (which DOESN'T feature in the ingredients I'd bette…
I've almost answer my own question
The Zeitung has been digitised and can be searched
https://zeitpunkt.nrw/ulbbn/periodical/search/9715711?query=Liberia&offset=361
Found a few articles (all in ornate German) for 1884 and 1885 from "our specia…
I did wonder what the "Dutch factory" was and what the factory actually made
I wasn't aware the Dutch had a presence in Liberia at that time but apparently the "factory" word was used to indicate a trading post or warehouse rather than in the Weste…
I'm looking at the first Postal Treaty between Bryant & Liberia and trying to get my head around exactly how packet mail would have worked prior to 1860
Suppose I had mail in Monrovia to go to GB or USA on a GB packet ship before 1860
How would…
Hi Gilldad
There are others on the Forum with more expertise than me on this
However I started doing the same thing a short while ago
First, I used Mackal’s revised list of forgers (Mackal, R. P. First Issue Liberian Forgeries Revisited. Journal o…
Hi
do you actually want info on the forgers themselves or the forgeries and how to identify them?
Manfred Beier's website has a great side by side visual comparison of the 1860-1880 forgeries. Cockrill details specifically what to look for each is…
Martin
I was about to post about my experience also having heard a lot of AI but not having used it before
I'm looking into the background of the early forgers of Liberia so I asked for information about "Francois Fournier, the well-known stamp for…
"slight" = be interesting to see the original Swedish. This could be seen as a light cancel or a partial cancel
The stamp I have in this series are virtually all CTO with a partial cancel - Marshall, Harper, etc and a (19)24 date when it can be seen
Has anyone any information about the France and Germany treaties? (or any others)
Apparently the US didn'ty have one in spite of the links with Liberia until the UPU
Perhaps because there was no regular direct shipping between the US and LIberia at…