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Postage Stamp Centenary (set of 4 Stamps) 1 1 October 1954 Runner, Camel and Bullock Cart 1 anna 2 1 October 1954 Courier pigeon and Plane 2 anna 3 1 October 1954 Cycle, Train, Ship and Plane 4 anna 4 1 October 1954 Courier pigeon and Plane 14 anna 5 24 October 1954 United Nations Day: 2 anna 6 11 December 1954
Until the mid-1990s it was usual policy not to issue stamps showing living persons, the only exceptions being Douglas Hyde (stamp 1943, d. 1949, illustrated below) [1]: 23 and Louis le Brocquy (stamp 1977, d. 2012, illustrated below), [1]: 56 but this policy has been put aside and there have recently been several issues showing living persons.
These continued to be used by the 49 post offices on envelopes and postal stationery after the introduction of postage stamps. The first cancellations were grid cancels to coincide with the issue of the first postage stamp in 1855. These were used from January 1855 until January 1856, when they were withdrawn to be re-engraved with 354 ...
A 1951 stamp of Laos showing Sisavang Vong A 1958 stamp of Laos. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Laos. Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west.
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]
Mail carriers in Baku, 1914. The postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan describes the history of postage stamps and postal systems in Azerbaijan, which closely follows the political history of Azerbaijan, from its incorporation to the Russian Empire in 1806, to its briefly obtained independence in 1918, which it lost to the Soviet Union in 1920 and re-acquired in 1991 after the fall ...
The 1c value from the first postage stamp of Guatemala, issued 1871 An 1898 telegraph stamp of Guatemala, produced by overprinting an earlier postage stamp. Guatemala has been independent from Spain since 1847. The first adhesive stamps of Guatemala were revenue stamps issued in 1868. [1] [2] The first postage stamps were produced in 1871. [3]
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.