Category: Item of the Month

Today’s cover of the month is a so-called letter card (or card letter) sent on 13.6.1941 by a Dr. Wirtz (possibly an ophthalmologist) to a Mrs. Rosa Zarotti in Eglisau in the district of Bülach in the Unterland of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The card is postmarked with 20 Rp. – Gentian motif Read More …

This time I present again a letter which was made available to me by Sieghard. It is a so-called precursor letter, i.e. a letter with Austrian stamps cancelled in Liechtenstein. These precursor letters existed until the issue of the first own Liechtenstein stamps in 1912. In this case it is a letter dated 7.8.1899 from Read More …

Just a short post today. I wanted to end the year by thanking all ÖSVLPH members who provide feedback and suggestions for improving the website or contributing articles. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  As a small thank you here now the New Year wishes probably from the year 1918 from Vaduz. Unfortunately, the date on the Read More …

Today I am happy to present again a contribution of our member Werner Rath. He shows us stamps of the landscape issue of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1906 with different perforations. I must admit, I myself was not really interested in perforations, but by reading up for this contribution, I have learned again a lot. The perforation Read More …

On today’s cover of the month, two special features of the Liechtenstein philately can be found. First, it is franked with the so-called “Vaduzblock”. This was issued on 29 Sept. 1934 on the occasion of the first Liechtenstein stamp exhibition in connection with the Liechtenstein National Exhibition – a show of achievements of the local Read More …

Here we tell little stories around various single covers. The PDF can also be downloaded – if the font here on the homepage is too small. You just have to click on the red headline. This will open the file with the description of the document. The PDF contains background on the subject of the Read More …

The cover of the month is a letter sent from Triesenberg in Liechtenstein to Muttenz / Baselland in Switzerland. Accordingly, it was a domestic letter in long-distance traffic and thus franked with a 20 centime stamp for long-distance traffic, appropriate for postage. The stamp is from a series of stamps with hunting motifs issued in Read More …

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the first Liechtenstein airmail stamps, a special helicopter flight was made from Vaduz to Zurich (Kloten) on 28 May 1960. This postcard was one of 11,816 covers sent as domestic mail either to Liechtenstein or Switzerland (4,971 covers went abroad) via this service. Since mail from Liechtenstein Read More …

Stamp Description: An almost insignificant and forgotten postage stamp issue of Liechtenstein with stamps of the values 20, 30 and 50 Rappen. Forgotten probably because the number of issued stamps was very high (20Rp: 159,882; 30Rp: 159,821; 50Rp: 159,802) and they were available at the post office counters for the entire period of validity, in Read More …