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Bavaria Scott #1, the first German stamp, 1849. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Germany and philatelically related areas. The main modern providers of service were the Reichspost (1871–1945), the Deutsche Post under Allied control (1945–1949), the Deutsche Post of the GDR (1949–1990), the Deutsche Bundespost (1949–1995), along with the Deutsche Bundespost ...
The first Moroccan postal stamps were produced in 1891 by private companies which managed courier services between cities.. The system was replaced after a reorganization in 1911, the Sherifian post was created to handle local mail, and produced two series of stamps which were valid for use until 1915 and until 1919 in Tangier.
Stamps for official use were prepared and carefully accounted for to combat the abuse of privileges by officials. In 1854 Spain had printed special stamps for official communications, but in 1866 India was the first country to adopt the simple expedient of overprinting 'Service' on postage stamps and 'Service Postage' on revenue stamps. This ...
These issues, like all previous U. S. postage stamps produced since 1861, were "perforated 12" [1] according to the standard gauge (i. e., twelve holes in a two-centimeter span). In another continued practice, the 1902 stamps were printed on a special paper embedded with watermarks reading "U S P S" in double-lined letters. [ 16 ]
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine. Ukraine is a republic in Eastern Europe . It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland , Slovakia , and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.
Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər, [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhart ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of ...
Formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovenia was combined with other areas in 1918 to form Yugoslavia.After occupation by Italy and Germany in WW2, it was returned to Yugoslavia in 1945.
The "Threepenny beaver" stamp of 1851. The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada.Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names.