ISSUE 160 - April 5, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Fabulous Firsts:
Stamps of Bergedorf
By W. H. Poole.
(From Stamps Magazine, June 6, 1938 with photos added.)
In the early days of stamp collecting one of the favorite conundrums the journals of the period was "Where is Bergedorf?" The little information obtainable from gazetteers and similar
works of reference was of such a conflicting nature that, but for
the tangible evidence of the postage stamps themselves, one
might well be pardoned for doubting the existence of a state or
town of this name. Even nowadays little of note will be found
in any of the standard books of reference for . . .
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