Category: Item of the Month

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 …

Today a very inconspicuous cover. Visually not a highlight for a thematic collection, but philatelically probably of higher value. It is a so-called postal form. Forms are pre-printed administrative documents. Postal forms (pre-printed forms) include not only the frequent posting slips and parcel cards, but also rarer forms such as consignment bills of recommended letters. Read More …

The cover of the month of May shows a stamp from 1952. It is part of the series – Paintings from the Princely Picture Gallery, Vaduz. A total of 21 stamps were issued for this series from 1949 to 1954. They were designed by Anton Frommelt (1895-1975) and produced in halftone gravure by Courvoisier. This Read More …

The story behind this Liechtenstein postal stationery, written on 7.9.1929, is one that extends to the present day. But first to the philatelic features of this card. It is a postal stationery with the imprinted stamp motif Vaduz Castle in the value of 25 Rp. This postal stationery appeared in February 1921 and was valid Read More …

Today I have chosen a Liechtenstein postal stationary – for the following reasons: The imprinted stamp is a dove: and we can’t have enough peace doves these days. The imprinted stamp is on a postal stationary with imprinted airmail mark, which was in use from 12.3. – 31.12.2001. The postal stationery was cancelled in Nendeln Read More …

Today’s cover of the month comes from Baden / Germany and was postmarked in Rastatt on 9.9.1949. It went by airmail to Baltimore and was franked postage due (airmail without zoning 20.10.48-30.11.50; 1st weight 0-10g = 80 Pfg). The 3 stamps with Carl Schurz for the 100th anniversary of the Baden Revolution in the denominations Read More …