Indochina, Return of the French to Indochina after World War II; While De Gaulle had initially been rebuffed by the United States in his intention to reclaim colonial…
Indochina, French Military Naval Mail in Indochina during and after World War II; The terrestrial French military postage system was also operational on the high seas. Soldiers could…
Democratic Republic of Vietnam; November 1945/1946; Indochinese stamps with an overprint (Michel Nr. 1-12) After the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th…
The exact date when the second series was issued is not featured in the catalogues. All they state is 1945/1946. The second series is philatelically more interesting as…
Sometimes stamps are offered in auctions that purport to have been prepared for the September 2nd, 1945 Independence Day. The stamps started to appear in the mid 1980’s…
in 1946 the Viet Minh began issuing overprints on Indochinese stamps that had little to do with postal necessities but were more focused on revenue generation. So the…
The fourth series of overprints served a very similar purpose to the third issue. It was basically a method to collect money from the population in general and…
While many Vietnam collectors are familiar with the extremely rare local Ho Chi Minh stamps issued in South Central Vietnam between 1950-1954, and those stamps (and their forgeries)…
Democratic Republic of of Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh; September 2nd., 1946 (Michel VM Nr.56-60); These were the first stamps entirely designed by the Viet Minh. Prior to 1946…
Once in a while, one will see a set of cinderellas that are made to look like an official stamp set from North Vietnam on offer. The new…