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A 1938 4d stamp of Jamaica. In 1900, Jamaica's first pictorial stamp featured a view of Llandovery Falls. Originally intended as a commemorative stamp marking the adoption of Imperial Penny Postage in 1889, it was too long delayed, and is considered a regular stamp. Originally issued in red, it was redesigned and issued in red and black the ...
A 1967 stamp featuring the Hulhulé Airport. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Maldives. The Maldive Islands are located in the Indian Ocean and are formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls stretching in a north-south direction off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and Chagos Archipelago.
The first stamps used in Madagascar were general issues for the French Colonies. In 1889 the French colonial general issues were overprinted with new face values. [1] [2] The 1891 issue A 1930 stamp of Madagascar French stamp overprinted for use in Madagascar, 1895. The 1891 issue was printed locally on sheetlets of 10 stamps.
In 1856, Mexico issued its first adhesive postage stamps, with "district overprints", a unique feature among postal systems worldwide, employed to protect from theft of postage stamps. In 1891, the postal and stamp issuing authority was created as an administrative division of the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (Secretariat of Communications).
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook , who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777. They became a British protectorate in 1888 and in 1900 administrative control was transferred to New Zealand .
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.
Still, a lot of copies of Peru's PSNC stamps circulation were forged, with colors never circulated as state-sponsored mail, or fantasy cancellations. So called Trencito, a commemorative stamp from April 1870, [2] one of the first in the world. Note the embossing at the center of the stamp on the coat of arms and on the train itself.