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The Mystery Box, short stories by Frederick Highland taking their inspiration from philatelic images

Night Falls on Damascus, a novel by Frederick Highland, set in Damascus during the French Mandate
Ghost Eater, a novel set in turn of the century Sumatra, by Frederick Higland
     
Stamp Whys

Puzzlers!

StampWhys - Puzzlers with Attitude!

Mystery

The Clearing
An "old fisherman" reports to the Magistrate

History

The Emperor's Garden
The Emperor's Garden

Stamps

Philately - The Fiction Connection
Sushi! Yum!


Chicago Philatelic Society Medal

The Mystery Box book is the proud winner of a Silver Medal awarded by the Chicago Philatelic Society CHICAGOPEX Literature Exhibit

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The Ottoman Empire

 Perhaps no stamp captures so eloquently the long struggle of Crete, and all of Greece, to free itself from Ottoman rule as this one-- an allegory of Crete enslaved.

Enslaved, Gibbons R9

 This stamp was issued by a revolutionary group in 1905. Scott does not list it, but Stanley Gibbons has it as R9.

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From under the heel of the Ottoman Empire to its union with Greece, continue to follow Crete's political evolution through its stamps.