Topical Web Pages

Queen Elizabeth II | Soccer Two topical sites by Alyssah Xeniah C. Alcala, a 13-year-old award-winning philatelist from the Philippines.

Bridge in Philately English version of an Italian site dedicated to stamps and cancellations that depict the card game Bridge. Navigation is not the easiest and the translation is rather rough, but this is an unusual an interesting specialty.

Chess on Stamps A selection of early chess-on-stamps topicals dating from 1947-1962. Also a helpful checklist for forming your own collection.

Purr 'n' Fur: Feline Philately A really excellent site; most of the stamps depicted are accompanied by well-written and informative articles. Also features reviews of new stamp emissions that picture domestic cats.

Balloons in Philately/Balloon Mail A collection of stamps demonstrating the development of hot air ballooning, accompanied by examples of Polish and Czechoslovakian balloon mail.

Mary on Stamps A collection of stamps featuring the Blessed Virgin assembled by two Marianist brothers and exhibited online by the University of Dayton library.

International Society of Joint Issue Collectors The number of issues of this type is growing almost exponentially, and more and more collectors are interested in this type of collection.

Heindorffhus Ann Mette Heindorff's topical collections: Hans Christian Anderson on stamps, art history on stamps, and stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania.

Sci-Philately A selective history of science on stamps by Maiken Naylor of the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Buffalo.

Birds on Stamps All the bird species you can find on postage stamps are numbered and presented here on one large web page in the sequence used by Clements' Birds of the World. Many are illustrated.

Jesuit Stamps About 128 Jesuits and some 88 Jesuit institutions have appeared or been alluded to on the postage stamps of some 90 different postal authorities. By Fr. Peter Fennessy.

King George VI on Stamps Articles and links to sites providing information on the stamps of King George VI.

Bibliophilately Dr. Jerzy Duda's site on bibliophilately, a collection of philatelic material thematically connected with books, illuminated manuscripts, and education.

Disney on Stamps An excellent online catalogue of Disney stamps from Stamp2.com.

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