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An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
Died. December 5, 2012. (2012-12-05) (aged 70) Berkeley, California, U.S. Peter Randolph Feltus (1 January 1942 [1] – 5 December 2012 [2]) was an American philatelist, an expert on the revenue stamps of Egypt and Sudan. He was a member of the American Philatelic Society, the Sudan Study Group and, from 1962 until his death, the Egypt Study ...
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847.[ 20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
The image suggests a special relationship between Egypt as the first and America as the latest civilization. [ 1] Egyptomania refers to a period of renewed interest in the culture of ancient Egypt sparked by Napoleon 's Egyptian Campaign in the 19th century. Napoleon was accompanied by many scientists and scholars during this campaign, which ...
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". Their border design was similar while each denomination of stamp bore ...
The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing ...
Bloomgarden, Henry S., American history through commemorative stamps 1969. Deaton, Charles W., The great Texas stamp collection 2012. Renfeld, Fred. Commemorative Stamps of the U.S.A.: an illustrated history of our country 1954. Woreck, Michael and Jordan Worek. An American history album: the story of the United States told through stamps 2008.
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
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