The Charles Lipschitz International Stamp Collection is comprised of postage stamps and commemorative first-day issue envelopes, dating from approximately 1915 to 1989. The majority of the materials correspond to the nations of the African continent, in particular South Africa and the apartheid-era Bantustans of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda. Other nations represented by this collection include the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Switzerland, and other countries in Europe and Asia.
The Charles Lipschitz International Stamp Collection is comprised of postage stamps and commemorative first-day issue envelopes, dating from approximately 1915 to 1989. The majority of the materials correspond to the nations of the African continent, in particular South Africa and the apartheid-era Bantustans of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda. Other nations represented by this collection include the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, Switzerland, and other countries in Europe and Asia.
Collection is open for research.
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by country of origin.
Charles Lipschitz International Stamp Collection, approximately 1915-1989. MS-01019. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were transferred to the University Archives in 1999 by the UNLV Foundation; accession number 2020-018.
In 2020, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Melise Leech rehoused and arranged the materials, wrote the finding aid, and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.