The Postal History of Albania 1900 - 1935
This web page contains links to the content of the exhibit pages for the exhibit
'The Postal History of Albania 1900 - 1935' by the late Al Kugel.
This exhibit documents through contemporary postal material the tumultuous geopolitical changes that took place in this small country during the first three and a half decades of the Twentieth Century. It had a long history as a part of the Ottoman Empire, which continued for the first dozen years studied here, followed by the declaration of independence from Turkey on 28 November 1912. For the purpose of illustrating this initial period, the Ottoman postal markings are shown as well as those of the Post Offices Abroad operated in the area by Austria-Hungary and Italy.
This exhibit was created by, and is the property of the late Al Kugel, and is being supplied by his heirs as a courtesy to the Military Postal History Society. (See the MPHS webpage) The Military Postal History Society (MPHS) is a non-profit organization for philatelists and stamp collectors interested in the collecting and studying of the postal aspects of all wars and military actions of all countries, including soldiers' campaign covers, naval mail, occupation and internment covers, patriotics, propaganda, V-mail, censorship and similar related material.
These exhibit page scans were made from black and white photocopies of the original exhibits.
The photocopy PDF files were re-scanned with the ocrmypdf program, which makes them fully text-searchable.
Those exhibits were created by Al Kugel many years ago, and are presented here for historical and research purposes. As far as the MPHS is aware, there are no color scans available of these older exhibit pages, nor for any of the illustrated postal history items.
This exhibit, created by the late Al Kugel, is made up of 10 frames, each frame containing 16 pages. Due to their size, each frame is available as a separate searchable PDF file. (See the PDF information page for additional help with this file format.)
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