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The list of local postal services which used stamps and/or handstamps for local deliveries is as follows: [11] [page needed] Warszawa local post stamp applied to a cover from Bromberg. The signature to the left side of this stamp is that of M A Bojanowicz, author of The Kingdom of Poland.
1949 Irish 1 shilling airmail stamp. An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air. [1]
Three issues of stamps, all within the month of October, 1918, are the only stamps to ever be issued by the Żarki local post. All stamps were denominated in heller (abbreviated as h ), the currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that occupied the region at the time.
The 5-cent Franklin and the 10-cent Washington postage stamps issued in 1847 were the first postage stamps issued and authorized for nationwide postal duty by the U.S. Post Office. The firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, and Edson of New York City were given a four-year contract to print the first U.S. postage stamps in 1847.
These stamps prominently featured the busts of a worker, a Red Army man, and a peasant. Over the course of the years 1923 to 1926, the worker and soldier designs appeared on thirteen different stamps each, while the peasant design was featured on ten stamps. Stamps of the 1st definitive, Gold Standard issue, 1923
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.
A new series of 1910 used an arms design for low values, and a full-face portrait of King Gustav V.Additional surcharges were needed in 1918 before new stamps of the series could be printed. 1920 saw the introduction of coil stamps using a lion design and a new portrait of Gustav, along with a crown and posthorn design for larger denominations, as well as a commemorative depicting Gustavus ...
For these purposes national postage stamps were issued from 1859, bearing the inscription Confed. Granadina Correos Nacionales. [7] In 1861 a series of stamps in five values was issued inscribed Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada, or the United States of New Granada. [7] United States of Colombia, 1877 10 centavos stamp