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Vintage Sons of Norway lapel pins worn by members. The Sons of Norway was founded as the Independent Order of the Sons of Norway. [2] The organization was founded by 18 members on January 16, 1895, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to insure each other when they were unable to secure life insurance on their own.
The first Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue was a penny price list issued in November 1865 and reissued at monthly intervals for the next 14 years. [1] The company produces numerous catalogues covering different countries, regions and specialisms; many of them are reissued annually.
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Starting April 10, stamps for 1-ounce letters will drop in price from 49 cents to 47 cents after the expiration of a 2-year agreement. Starting April 10, stamps for 1-ounce letters will drop in ...
The Scandinavia Philatelic Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1952 as the Scandinavian Collectors Club, to promote the collection of Stamps, Postcards and Postal History of greater Scandinavia. That is Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Danish West Indies, Åland and Spitsbergen.
The club was founded in 1935 in New York City as the Finnish-American Stamp Club. On February 13, 1942, the club changed its name to the Scandinavian Collectors Club of New York , and, in 1959, it changed its name again to Scandinavian Collectors Club and chapters were formed.
The first non-royal person to appear on a Norwegian stamp was the playwright Henrik Ibsen, to commemorate the centenary of his birth in 1928 followed by the mathematician Niels Henrik Abel later the same year. Queen Maud was the first woman to appear on a Norwegian stamp, in 1939, followed by her daughter-in-law Märtha in 1956.