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International reception. The Finnish postal service reported a record amount of interest in the stamp issue, including pre-orders from 178 countries. Itella planned to produce 200,000 sheets and allows for online orders by overseas buyers. The German Tagesspiegel called the series a Kassenschlager, a world-wide box office success.
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Tripolitania, now part of Libya. Tripolitana is a historic region of western Libya, centered on the coastal city of Tripoli. Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Tripolitania was captured by Italy in 1911 during the Italo-Turkish War. Italy officially granted autonomy after the war ...
1913 "Crossing desert" issue of Mauritania. Mauritania's first stamps were issued in 1906. Before that, Mauritania used the stamps of Senegal. [1] [2] The 1906 stamps were the common design used in all the French West African territories, featuring General Louis Faidherbe on the low values (1–10 centimes), oil palms on the middle values (20–75 centimes), and Dr. Noel Eugene Ballay, a ...
South Africa controlled the postal service until Namibian independence in 1990. After World War II, the mandate was supposed to transform the colony into a United Nations Trust Territory , but South Africa objected to it coming under UN control and refused to allow the territory's transition to independence, regarding it as a fifth province.
After the full invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, Ukrposhta issued its first postage stamp related to the war, the "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" stamp, to commemorate the moment of the Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island issuing a defiant response to the Russian cruiser the Moskva. A total of one million stamps were issued ...
The 1866 local stamps of Liannos et Cie for the Egyptian postal service in Constantinople In 1865 the local post distribution company Liannos et Cie was established in Constantinople to distribute mail arriving in the city which was not addressed in Arabic as the staff of the Ottoman Postal Service were unable to read the Latin alphabet.
Centenary of First Freedom Struggle (Set of 2 Stamps) 1 15 August 1957 Rani Laxmibai: 15 np 2 15 August 1957 Sapling and leaping flames 90 np 3 28 October 1957 19th International Red Cross Conference, New Delhi: 15 np * Children's Day (Set of 3 Stamps) 4 14 November 1957 Nutrition: 8 np 5 14 November 1957 Education: 15 np 6 14 November 1957 ...