Some Completed Congo Sets & Pages

I confess that I’m a little infatuated with any stamps having Queen Elizabeth II. Of particular interest to me are the Omnibus Set issued in 1953, a year after her Coronation, and I have always wanted to have 1 album to mount all the stamps from that set in. So, I went ahead and made…

This 1919 set of Czechoslovakia comes in 3 denominations, 15  ‎haléř , 25  ‎haléř  and 50  ‎haléř. The depiction is a lion, The Bohemian Lion in fact, breaking it’s chains. They were Czechoslovakia’s first semi-postal stamps issued and the added surtax was used to raise money for orphans of Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of the…