A few days after I started these pages in May 1999, Martin Treadwell contacted me and we decided to improve these pages together. Sheryll Oswald joined us some months later. Hubert Goron (†), a collector of the New Hebrides for many years, has contributed many important pieces of early postal history, as well as the highlight of the New Hebrides stamps, the 1908 1d red vertical pair with missing overprint. More recently, Jacques Mérot (†) has provided us with rare items such as 1907 essays, 1908 fakes, the scarce 1920 5c on 50c without CONDOMINIUM millesime, and 1977 varieties.
 

A number of other contributors are also helping to improve this site. Stan Jersey and Dudley Priester from USA, John Yeomans and the "Mele", "Namba 2" and "RMD" (†) collections from Great Britain, the "Aore" collection from Australia and many, many others contributed some superb examples of early postal history to this site, and they also present some choice stamp items not found elsewhere. On some pages there are images of items originating from auctions and dealer's offers. In these cases the sources are named at the place were they are presented.

Many thanks to them all for participating! See the contributors here                           Site maintenance: Roland Klinger

If you are interested in stamps of the Pacific Islands, you may want to link to the Pacific Islands Study Circle.

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