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The postal service was started on 4 August 1883 with one post office building, called Praisaneeyakarn (Thai: ไปรษณียาคาร) on the bank of Chao Phraya River near Ong Ang Canal. [3] The first postage stamps—the Solot Series—and a postcard were issued on the same day. [4]
Since postage due stamps are almost always used only within a single country, they are usually quite simple in design, mostly consisting of a large numeral, and an inscription saying "postage due", "porto", etc.; often there is no country name. As with definitive stamps, a variety of values are needed to make up specific amounts.
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.
Since the advent of manned flight, postal services have used birds as a common illustration for air mail stamps. [1] 1875 stamp of Japan featuring illustration of a wagtail. 2024 Colombia stamp depicting the Long-tailed Sylph. A bird stamp is a postage stamp that illustrates one or more birds. It is a popular theme in topical stamp collecting. [2]
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A pane from a postage stamp booklet showing two different stamps from the Wilding series. The Wildings were a series of definitive postage and revenue stamps featuring the Dorothy Wilding photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that were in use between 1952 and 1971. The Wildings were the first and only British stamps to feature graphite ...
This is a list of all the major variations of the Machin series of postage stamps in the United Kingdom. The complete list of all variations is vast and outside the scope of this encyclopedia. Note: the colours and the colour descriptions are to be used to give an idea only, as each catalogue and website will name the colours differently.
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.