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The Trans-Mississippi Issue is a set of nine commemorative postage stamps issued by the United States to mark the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. The finely engraved stamps depict various scenes of the West and are presently valued much by collectors.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Brunei.. Brunei is located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia.Its coastline with the South China Sea is the only portion that is not bounded by another country; the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, surrounds the country and it is divided into two portion by Limbang, which is part of Sarawak.
This is a survey of the postal history and postage stamps of French Polynesia, formerly known as the French Oceania. [1] The first postage stamps used in French Polynesia were the general stamps of the French Colonies from 1862. [2] In 1882 a shortage of 25c stamps necessitated a surcharge on less-used values. Some of the surcharges also ...
In 1918, a need for 27 øre value resulted in surcharges on newspaper stamps, some of which are scarce, with prices today of up to 200 US$. On 5 October 1920, Denmark's first commemorative stamps , a set of three pictorials, marked the reunion of northern Schleswig with Denmark following a plebiscite .
Penny Black – World's first postage stamp; Penny Blue – Trial printings from a penny black plate; Two pence blue – Issued for second rate step, at the same time as Penny Black
Before the first postage stamps of Fiji, mail was carried by trading vessels to Sydney, Australia, and other ports, where it was placed in the mail. [1] The first stamps of Fiji were issued on 1 November 1870 by the local newspaper, the Fiji Times. The British Consul objected to the service and tried to close it in 1871 and appointed an ...
The New York Postmaster's Provisional is, as its designation implies, a postage stamp provided by the New York Post Office to facilitate the prepayment of mail at a time when the United States had not yet issued postage stamps for national use.
These stamps were popular from the start, but were not printed in large numbers and are quite scarce today, with values ranging from US$1,500 to $20,000 depending on type. With the exception of one 6-rappen block of 9 (3x3) later split into a block of 6 (3x2) and a strip of three, all sheets were cut horizontally, so that no vertical pairs or ...