Postal History Archive

Here you can study Postal History, Covers, Postcards, Postal Stationery items from all over the world! None of these are for sale. However we also have Postcards website. Please click here to buy Old Stamps, Postcards and Flight Covers. A total of 8062 items are on this website for reference.

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Channel Islands Siege of Paris 1871 envelope
cover written from Millbrook addressed to Albert Barre the famous French engraver of the 1st stamps of France and Greece Hermes bearing SG103, 3d rose plate 5 tied by Jersey 409 duplex dated 30th January with circular PD routed via London with m/s "Recue 12 Feb". This letter was written 3 days after the end of the siege, a historic item from the Barre correspondence. (pt)