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Stamps for official use were prepared and carefully accounted for to combat the abuse of privileges by officials. In 1854 Spain had printed special stamps for official communications, but in 1866 India was the first country to adopt the simple expedient of overprinting 'Service' on postage stamps and 'Service Postage' on revenue stamps. This ...
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.
The "Threepenny beaver" stamp of 1851. The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada.Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names.
2d Map of Ireland: first Irish postage stamp. The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840.
April 1980 saw the first set of postage stamps issued after the establishment of the People's Republic of Kampuchea. In 1989, the name of "People's Republic of Kampuchea" was changed to the State of Cambodia .
The 5¢ issue appeared only in "vertical coils" (i. e., the coil was a single stamp wide, each stamp was imperforate on both its left and right sides, while perforations separated the bottom of each stamp from the top of the one below it); the 1¢ and 2¢ values, however were each offered both as "vertical coils" and "horizontal coils" (stamps ...
Freaks include paper folds resulting in half-printed half-blank stamps, "crazy perfs" running diagonally across stamps, and insects embedded in stamps, underneath the ink. Stamp freak, strange matter embedded in paper's stamp above number 2 (Australia 2d king George V orange die 1, 1920).
Castle, Wilfrid T. F. Cyprus, 1353–1986: History, Postal History & Postage Stamps. London: Christie's-Robson Lowe/Cyprus Study Circle, 1987 ISBN 0-85397-418-7 546p. Frangoudis, Hermes St. Catalogue of Cyprus Stamps and Postal History 1845–2002. Athens: The Author, 2003 ISBN 9609205003 336p. Georgallis, C. and Spencer, M. Stamp Booklets 1962 ...