Category: Item of the Month

The cover of the month April is possibly an April Fool’s joke, as it is also a bit late and I can’t really make any sense of the postmark. Hence my call to the net: can anyone help me with this? This is a Liechtenstein postal stationary with the stamp motif chamois at 10 centimes Read More …

While there is still snow on the mountains, I wanted to show these stamps with a zeppelin – more precisely the airship LZ127 “Graf Zeppelin” – crossing the snow-covered mountain peaks of Liechtenstein. The stamps are special in that they are the first to feature zeppelins on Liechtenstein stamps and could only be used for Read More …

This first day cover from 7.4.1941 is a registered letter sent by express courier. This letter was cancelled in Vaduz with a bridge postmark – Swiss-type with hours. This stamp bears two stars to the right and left of the bridge, which is 9.3 mm high. Liechtenstein is written in brackets at the bottom. This Read More …

Another card from Sieghard’s collection as cover of the month. It is a card that was posted at the Mauren “postal depot office” to be taken to Nendeln, where it was postmarked on 31.5.1908 with a 10 h stamp for postcards abroad to be sent to Walenstadt in Switzerland. The content of the card is Read More …

In my search for the cover of the month, I did not travel back in time this time. I was fascinated by the fact that Liechtenstein issued Christmas stamps with Christmas baubles as a motif again this year. The stamps are beautifully traditional in terms of the motifs on the baubles: cosy motifs reminiscent of Read More …

The cover of the month of September 2023 is a registered letter from Vaduz to Grellingen in Switzerland. In long-distance traffic, postage of 20+20 centimes would have been necessary here. However, it is a letter sent by the sales office for postage stamps (also recognizable by the bridge cancel, which was only used in this Read More …

A cover of the month of July 2023 shows us a letter from Liechtenstein from 1941. More precisely, a first-day cover with the “Madonna of Dux” stamp, which has a high nominal value of 10 francs. On the first day of issue of the stamp – 7 July 1941 – the letter was also sent Read More …