ISSUE 179 - November 7, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Fabulous Firsts:
Schleswig-Holstein (Nov. 15, 1850)
by H. M. Hansen
(From Mekeel’s Weekly, June 25, 1910)
The stamps of these two provinces have, like so many other issues of postage stamps, quite an historic interest, apart from their philatelic value. They show us clearly the much-debated history of the two Dukedoms from 1850 up to 1866, and although there are no stamps of very great rarity, nor any great number of varieties, yet they do undoubtedly possess considerable philatelic interest, not least because they possess . . .
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