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PACIFIC ISLANDS RESOURCES: 

 Collectors of stamps and postal history of the Pacific islands can  find in the following, some good links to interesting pages.

    Before listing some good links and other basic information, I suggest our readers to give  a glance to the a new  booklet which tells us everythig about the Pacific island of Clipperton and his stamps:

go to page 42a clicking HERE!  Then come back here using  the "back page" button  or the link at the end of the 42a page.

Now, please, read this important article by Eric Baxendale on the postmarks of Pacific area:

- article "It is fun  to collect the Pacific".

This article introduce you to the Pacific collecting,  and give  a lot of interesting links and advice.

Another lovely article by Christopher Clifford Vice President of PISC was publsihed on Stamp Lover magazine, read it here:

- article "Pacific islands ".

Thanks to: Stamp Lover the magazine of the National Philatelic Society, London, England, www.ukphilately.org.uk/nps)

- PISC: official site of the Pacific Islands Study Circle.  Pisc publishes  four times a year the magazine "Pacifica". In its website you may find a rich bibliography, sample of postmarks and useful links to island official websites.  

- United States Pacific Islands Bulletin: interesting newsletters edited by Eric Baxendale about those Pacific islands which, at some times, since WW2 have been administered or claimed by the US.

- US PACIFIC ISLANDS test site  Joel R. Fassler hosts general index of all the 57 bulletins, plus the complete # 1,2,3,4 issues. 

- Joel Fassler Pacific Islands covers page: a very nice display of some covers of U.S. Pacific islands by J.R. Fassler

- Postmark & postal History of Caroline, Mariana, Marshall islands   from 1944 until today, including examples of postmarks.

 - Professor Dirk H.R. Spenneman covers aspects of the Postal History of many Pacific Islands, with the emphasis on Micronesia during the German period. Click on  the general index at:  http://marshall.csu.edu.au/index.html then choose the island of your interest and  a specific  topic  including "stamps". For example for Marshall island stamps see: http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/Marshalls_Stamps.html . Take note: some pages of the Dirk H.R. Spenneman website are not yet available.

- Last, but not least, some other information and images  on Pacific islands are among my pages of this website. Read the following for a guide to discover them!

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Dear readers,

the   website has composed by more than 1.500 screen pages with a total of more than 250 million of bytes in text and in images.

The website is related to all the activities of CIFR (Italian Center for Resistance Philately) . You may read all information about CIFR from the homepage in English version at: indexe.html . I am the webmaster and the responsible of this web site. I am an Italian philatelic journalist and my nick name is Fabio V.

In this page I would like to explain to readers another interesting activitiy which is running since the January 2004.

 There is  a very interesting philatelic Forum in Italian language, see:  

This Forum (with its old and new version) hosted and hosts the philatelic discussion of more than 1.000 members (of Italian mother tongue) and it is visited monthly by surfers from more than 60 Countries.

A section of this FORUM collects all the topics which I am moderating, since January 2004. 

Link at:        

  its title is "le storie dietro i francobolli"

In four years, in this section,  (on old and new forum) there were posted more than 20.000 messages, with more than 1.500.000 hits (read pages).

On the Italian Summary there is the list of the subjects and related pages, a copy of it it is also at the bottom of this page.

Of course people who do not know Italian cannot fully appreciate the contents, although some covers and some topics are easily understood.

Now I would like to summarize the topics and the types of collection of my interest:

- Locals of the world (ASFE collection) [stamps, bogus, labels and covers]

- Extreme island postcard collection [postcards and pictorial QSL cards]

- External territories of the world [stamps] 

- Pacific island postmarks (plus modern postal history)  [stamps, covers, QSL cards, postcards,  postmarks, APO, FPO.]

- Antarctic stations [stamps, covers, postmarks, cachet,  postcards and QSL]    

Many of these subjects have some common points.

In order to find some information of your interest I suggest the following:

1) simply use the internal Search engine. You write the word of your interest inside the frame and click on "find". You will have all the link which are related to that word. (you may use one * at the end of a word to extent the search)

       here the Search Internal engine, insert the word of your interest then click on "find":

2) Read the Italian index  at the end of this page, but look at the "P" flag in the right column:  P= "Pacific item inside" 

3) Read  the Italian index, but look t the "E" flag in the right column: E=" text in English inside", but the contents are not specificlly related to Pacific islands  

OTHER TOPICS:

- spy stamps and propaganda stamps during WW2

- "usual, unusual and improbable means" of mail transport ( blue colour the section of this topic)

- News from old newspaper on stamps  (in red colour, at the bottom section "NEWS DAL PASSATO")

- EXTERNAL Territories of all Countries of the world ( in green colour)

- micro-nations of the world with their stamps, bogus or private labels

- EXTREME islands of the world (in green colour)

- Seven wonders of the world, plus others from the past time until today. 

- The best 180 islands in the world (in olive colour)

- Milan football club history through stamps

- Scout post and Toy Post

- underwater photos and "underwater maximaphily" 

- no paper stamps

- smelling stamps

- stamps Guiness records (the largest... the smallest.. and so on)

- stamps in odd shapes (triangle, round  etc... )

and other philatelic curiosities and oddities, and peculiar stories which are behind the stamps of the world

There are also some  QUIZZES, on errors on stamps or curious ones. (see QUIZ word in red colour) 

                                                                  DESCRIPTION                      click on page:           P or E

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