https://www.balkanphila.com Postal history, stamps, archives, postcards, ephemera, books Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:31:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.balkanphila.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png https://www.balkanphila.com 32 32 https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/ukraine-kherson-poteminsky-boulevard-1904-steamship-agency-to-scotland/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:28:58 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=96839 Ukraine: 1904 postcard titled ‘Poteminsky Boulevard’ to Scotland struck by Steamship Agency hand cachet.

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]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1904-crimea-gurzuf-or-hurzuf-postcard-to-usa/ Mon, 05 May 2025 16:08:57 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=89005 Crimea: 1904 postcard titled ‘Crimee. Goursouff’ to Chicago, United States tied by dispatch (Gurzuf or Hurzuf) , Simferopol transit and Chicago arrival cds’s.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1939-carpatho-ukraine-to-budapest/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:22:32 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=77293 Czechoslovakia – Carpatho Ukraine: 1939 (15 March). Cover to Budapest, Hungary franked with 3k and tied by dispatch cds. Vertical fold

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1914-ukraine-odessa-pharmaceutical-via-italian-ship-giava/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:09:31 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=76241 Russia – Ukraine – Italian Levant: 1914 (25August). Russian Pharmaceutical Company, Odessa imprinted cover to London franked with 10k Romanov stamp and tied by GIAVA Piroscafo Postale Italiano ship cancel. Scarce.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1912-ukraine-kherson-istanbul-arnavutkoy-to-london/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:19:27 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=75327 Ukraine – Türkiye: 1912 postcard titled ‘Arnaout-keuy. Constabntinople’ from Kherson to London.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1907-crimea-yalta-postcard-batum-odessa-6/ Tue, 07 May 2024 11:04:36 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=72894 Ukraine: 1907 postcard of Yalta, Crimea to St. Petersburg franked with 3k and tied by Batum – Odessa 6 datestamp and arrival cds’s.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1916-ukraine-odessa-registered-censored-to-france/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:26:16 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=70170 Ukraine: 1916 (19 December). Registered cover to France franked with 20k and tied by Odessa datestamp, censor cachet and 17 March 1917 arrival cds. Reverse next day Odessa depart cds. Flap missing.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1922-ukraine-odessa-registered-to-berlin/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:24:21 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=65995 Ukraine: 1922 (31 October). Registered cover to Germany franked on reverse with block of fifteen 10k coat of arms stamps tied by Odessa datestamps, 2 November transit and 15 November Berlin arrival cds’s.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1922-ukraine-kyiv-registered-to-usa/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:17:40 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=60459 Soviet Russia – Ukraine: 1922 (25 February). Registered cover to United States franked with five pairs of 1000r inflation definitive stamps tied by KIEV datestamps and 27 March New York arrival cds.

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