Saturday, May 25, 2019

1945 SPLIT, Letter from Blato

I have an interesting letter sent from the small village Blato on the island of Korčula...

1945 Split provisional issue, registered letter, correctly franked with 50kn (20kn for letter and 30kn for registration), sent from the small village Blato on island of Korčula (22.V.45) to Belgrade (3.VI.45). The letter traveled via Vela Luka (22.V.45) and city of Korčula (23.V.45) where it was censored - censorship No. 16.

Thursday, May 16, 2019

My blog visitors - demographics

I am not sure how Google determines age and gender of site users, but I found the results for my blog quite predicted and aligned with philately in general. For me, the positive fact is that interest in the age group of 45 to 54 has been increasing.

Demographics overview of my blog visitors - age and gender.

Sunday, May 12, 2019

1941 MEĐIMURJE, Hrvatska država

In a small print run, during the cleaning of clichés at positions 1 and 2, the inscription "Država Hrvatska" was rearranged to "Hrvatska država". Only the 0.25 din, 0.50 din, 1 din, 1.50 din and 3 din exist with this variety (2 din probably exists, but has not yet been found).

1941 Međimurje, local provisional issue, 1 din horizontal strip of five, the upper row from a block of ten with "Hrvatska država" variety at positions 1 and 2. An exceptionally rare item! Including all the values only three such rows have been found to date. Certificate Vilfan.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

1943 IMOTSKI, Official letter

Yesterday, I spent a very nice day at the philatelic convention in Zagreb where I found some great items, including one nice Imotski letter...

1943 Imotski, official letter sent from Imotski (handwritten 10.5.43) to Zagreb (14.5.43) correctly franked with 7kn for the second weight letter, cancelled with temporary provisional rubber stamp "POŠTA - IMOTSKI". Certificate Ercegović.

Friday, May 3, 2019

Concentration camp Lovran

Lovran (Laurana) was a small concentration camp established at the Park hotel as a temporary facility for the local population, especially for the relatives of those who joined the partisans. Later, the camp was also used for other internees. Postal correspondence from Lovran is very rare ...

Letter from a war internee from Laurana, Fiume (2.7.43) to Baranello, Campobasso (7.7.43), verified at Regia Questura Campobasso.