Philately - The Fiction Connection
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
The overprint on this British stamp signifies that the
stamp was issued for use by:
a) British Offices in Turkey
b) Channel Islands
c) Ireland
d) Scotland
After a long struggle for independence from Great Britain, Irish Republicans won an Irish Free State in January 1922. While Ireland’s first stamps were being designed, Irish postal authorities overprinted the existing stock of British stamps with a Gaelic inscription which reads as
(c) “Provisional Government of Ireland 1922”. The first original Irish designs appeared later that year also in Gaelic and bearing the new country’s ancient name of “Eire.”
