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Malta used postage due markings on mail throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but only issued its first set of postage due stamps on 16 April 1925. The first set consisted of ten imperforate provisional stamps with denominations ranging from ½d to 1/6, and they were typeset at the Government Printing Office in Valletta.
The country became independent on 3 September 1971 and this was marked with a set of four stamps issued on 17 January 1972. Regular commemorative and definitive stamps have been issued since then, mostly on subjects relevant to Qatar. A postage stamp booklet was issued in 1977. [4]
The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.
On 2 December 1982 a souvenir sheet was issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the first postage Stamp of Sri Lanka. This was the first souvenir sheet of two stamps of different denominations: 50 cents and 2.50 rupees with a sheet value of Rs. 5. [5] On 1 April 2007 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first postage stamp of Sri ...
The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 but was not valid for use until 6 May. The stamp features a profile of Queen Victoria. In 1837, British postal rates were high, complex and anomalous.
Postage stamp issued for Bangkok. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the British post office in Bangkok, Thailand. The earliest recorded mail from Bangkok dates back only to 1836 when American missionary Dan Beach Bradley sent a letter to his father in a stampless cover.
[34]: 50–159 The first miniature sheet of four stamp on stamp postage stamps was issued in 1972 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Irish postage stamp. [ 34 ] : 50 This was followed by a four-stamp sheet to commemorate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence ; the stamps in this sheet were also available ...
The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more, with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose".