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Advertising has been with us for so long it has become a part of our daily life. Many years ago, some firms saw the potential of advertising on stamps.

Imperial Russia and Imperial China had an interesting history. Despite having a joint border that was thousands of miles long, they never had a declared war.

French West Africa (FWA) is an interesting area to study from a postal history perspective. FWA is more or less a continually changing group of countries rather than one individual nation.

For roughly a hundred years Aden was a British Protectorate and most of the early stamps used there were from Great Britain, India, Ceylon and Mauritius. Identification is through postmarks.

Though very popular with his subjects, Prince Constantine was deemed too young and inexperienced to successfully rule Greece when he ascended the throne of that turbulent country.

The Arabian Peninsula has been a focal point for both British and American petroleum companies since the early 1920’s. An American oil company, called Standard Oil Company of California (SOCAL), had made progress in finding oil in Bahrain in 1932, and in 1933 was granted an oil concession in Saudi Arabia by the recently unified Saudi government.

The USPS has now issued over 4,000 stamps; of these, almost two per cent depict American authors. One third of these writers published from 1800 to 1899; two thirds since 1900.

Huainan is a small city by Chinese standards, the population being only about two million.

There are many philatelic society journals published around the world. This column is designed to provide readers with basic information about those received for review.