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£1 bluish black: Jun 17 1970 £1 olive & greenish yellow: Feb 2 1977 £1.30 buff & blue-green: Aug 3 1983 £1.33 mauve & blue-black: Aug 28 1984 £1.41 buff & blue-green: Sep 17 1985 £1.50 blue-black & lilac: Sep 2 1986 £1.60 blue-black & buff: Sep 15 1987 £2 purple-brown and pale green: Feb 2 1977 £5 royal blue & pale pink: Feb 2 1977
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.
The Austrian Empire, between 1816 and 1867. The first postage stamp issue of the Empire of Austria was a series of imperforate typographed stamps featuring the coat of arms. At first they were printed on a rough handmade paper, but after 1854 a smooth machine-made paper was used instead.
After increasing the price of a first-class postage stamp to 68 cents in January, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to increase the cost again in the coming days.. The USPS will bump the cost of ...
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.
Malta's first postage stamp, the Halfpenny Yellow, which was issued for local mail on 1 December 1860. The postal history of Malta began in the early modern period, when pre-adhesive mail was delivered to foreign destinations by privately owned ships for a fee.
The first stamp of Colombia was a black 20 centavos revenue stamp issued on 1 September 1858. [5] [6] The central government of the Granadine Confederation, was responsible for inter-state services and all outgoing and incoming mail to and from other countries.
On 2 December 1982 a souvenir sheet was issued to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the first postage Stamp of Sri Lanka. This was the first souvenir sheet of two stamps of different denominations: 50 cents and 2.50 rupees with a sheet value of Rs. 5. [5] On 1 April 2007 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first postage stamp of Sri ...