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A 1981 stamp marking the 20th anniversary of the Napoleon Museum in Havana. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cuba. Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the ...
The first stamps of the Venezuela were issued on 1 January 1859. [1] Venezuela supported its territorial claim in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 by printing an 1896 postage stamp with a map showing Guyana up to the east bank of the Essequibo River as "Guayana Venezolana". Guyana years later responded with a series of overprints “ESSEQUIBO IS ...
Angel Guerra Porro, general (1996) José Luis Guerra Agular, director of the Postal Museum (1991) Antonio Guerrero, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolution leader (1968) Nicolás Guillén, poet (2002) Antonio Guiteras y Holmes, politician (1951) Juan Guiteras, Cuban physician and pathologist (1952)
A privately run packet service for mail existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice. The first adhesive stamps produced by British Guiana were issued in 1850. British Guiana is famous among philatelists for its early postage stamps ...
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
In 1856, Mexico issued its first adhesive postage stamps, with "district overprints", a unique feature among postal systems worldwide, employed to protect from theft of postage stamps. In 1891, the postal and stamp issuing authority was created as an administrative division of the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (Secretariat of Communications).
A 1950 8-cent stamp of Barbados picturing an Inter Colonial Schooner. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Barbados. The first Europeans to arrive on the island were probably the either the Spanish or Portuguese in about the year 1500. In 1605 Sir Olave Leigh landed on the island and claimed it for King James. The first ...
Spanish provinces. From 30 July 1959 to 11 October 1968, Fernando Poo and Río Muni were treated as overseas provinces of Spain until they combined to form Equatorial Guinea on 12 October 1968 . Fernando Poo and Río Muni originally used postage stamps of Spanish Guinea until 1960 when the Spanish government decreed the use of separate issues ...