Rare stamps and historic mail on show in Prague

An international stamp exhibition titled Philately – Rarities and Stories II opens in central Prague on Monday, hosted at the Kafkoff café in the birthplace of Franz Kafka. Among two dozen exhibits is a charred postcard recovered from the 1937 crash of the airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, valued at around €60,000. Visitors can also see a postal cover carried to the Moon during Apollo 15, as well as a rare block of the world’s first stamp, the Penny Black. The exhibition, marking 100 years of the International Federation of Philately, runs until March 8.