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This is a survey of the postal history and postage stamps of French Polynesia, formerly known as the French Oceania. [1] The first postage stamps used in French Polynesia were the general stamps of the French Colonies from 1862. [2] In 1882 a shortage of 25c stamps necessitated a surcharge on less-used values. Some of the surcharges also ...
The first Belgian stamp, known as "Epaulettes", issued in 1849. Belgium began using national postage stamps on 8 July 1849, [1] when two imperforate stamps, a 10c. brown and 20c. blue, collectively known as Epaulettes, were introduced. A few months later a 40c. red stamp with a new design was issued, for postage to foreign destinations.
Post–World War II. After the Surrender of Japan, United States Army Military Government in Korea was set up in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. United States Armed Forces officers were assigned to military government jobs, and Lieutenant colonel William J. Herlihy was appointed director of the Bureau of Communications.
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.
Histoire du service postal au Congo Belge = De geschiedenis van de postdienst in Belgisch Kongo: 1886-1960. Brussels: The Author, 2005 2 volumes (Volume 2 is subtitled: De Postzegels) Gudenkauf, Abbe G. Belgian Congo: Postal History of the Lado Enclave, 1897-1910. Newbury: Philip Cockrill, 1985 144p. Keach, R. H.
A 1937 diamond-shaped stamp of Costa Rica. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
In cases where a Christmas seal is tied [g] alongside a postage stamp, with a postmark with the same year date in which the given Christmas seal was issued often commands much higher prices than those that have been cancelled and are no longer affixed to a postcard or envelope. [40]
The postage stamps and postal history of Israel is a survey of the postage stamps issued by the state of Israel, and its postal history, since independence was proclaimed on May 14, 1948. The first postage stamps were issued two days later on May 16, 1948. [1] Pre-1948 postal history is discussed in postage stamps and postal history of Palestine.