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An 1868 stamp of the Orange Free State A stamp of the Orange Free State overprinted V.R.I. in 1900 during the British occupation. The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. The Orange Free State was annexed to the British Crown and renamed the Orange River Colony on 28 ...
The personalization is achieved by printing a thumb nail image of the individual photograph and logos of institutions, or images of artwork, heritage buildings, famous tourist places, historical cities, wildlife, other animals and birds etc., on a selected template sheet having postage stamps.
The Postage Stamps of The Straits Settlements. London: Sefi, Pemberton & Company, 1925 40p. Series Title: Series of studies in philately no. 3. Ted Proud, Postal History of British Malaya: Straits Settlements. ISBN 1872465021; Wood, F. E. Straits Settlements Postage Stamps. Kuala Lumpur: Selangor Stamp Club, (1948) reprinted 1961 136p.
The Series of 1902, also known as the Second Bureau Issue, is a set of definitive postage stamps in fourteen denominations ranging between one cent and five dollars, produced by the U. S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing and issued by the United States Post Office. Two denominations appeared in November and December 1902 and the other twelve ...
The 2¢ Landing of Columbus is the most common stamp of the Columbian Issue. The Columbian Issue, also known as the Columbians, is a set of 16 postage stamps issued by the United States to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago during 1893.
The final years of the Canal Zone saw few stamps issued—those that were issued were mainly for new first-class postal rates (the first-class rates paralleled those of the United States) The last stamp (fifteen cents) of the Zone was issued on October 25, 1978, and depicted one of the towing locomotives and a ship in a lock.
The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the Chinese: 郵政局; pinyin: yóuzhèngjú post office. The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
U.S. 2¢ stamp of 1938 with New York precancel, Scott No. 806, PSS type 71. A precanceled stamp, or precancel for short, is a postage stamp that has been legitimately cancelled before being affixed to mail. [1] [2] A number of nations of the world use precancels, typically in the form of an overprint on definitive series stamps.