Stamp Whys by Frederick Highland

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

Mystery

History

The Emperor's Garden

Stamps

Philately - The Fiction Connection

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

Read the Book Review by Barbara Kinne of the APS American Philatelist

Union with Greece

Hermes, messenger of the gods, as sculpted by Praxiteles, the greatest of Greek sculptors, adorns this stamp.

Hermes, Scott 103

How fitting that this 1908 Cretan issue, which announces Crete's union with Greece, should show "HELLAS" (Greece) overprinted on an image of Hermes. (Scott 103)

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