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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 ...
The first stamps of France were issued on 1 January 1849. [1] They were designed by Jacques-Jean Barre. The medallion depicts the head of goddess Ceres facing left. In 1852 a new series of definitive stamps were issued, retaining the inscription "REPUB FRANC" but replacing Ceres with the head of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
From 1975 to 2015. For some forty years, the price of a stamp for a letter weighing less than 20 grams remained stable, equivalent to 60 and 70 euro cents in 2022. During the 1970s, the domestic rate for a 20-gram letter rose from 80 centimes to 1.40 francs in 1980. Between 1983 and 2017, the priority rate increased by 3.06% per year.
A 1922 stamp of La Aguera. In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". [1] These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara, as La Güera was incorporated to ...
Postage stamps and postal history of France; Postage stamps and postal history of French Sudan; T. Type Sage This page was last edited on 23 June 2013, at 06:13 ...
BSh. La Guaira ( Spanish: [la ˈɣwajɾa] ⓘ) is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port. It was founded in 1577 as an outlet for Caracas, 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the southeast. The town and the port were badly damaged during the December 1999 floods and mudslides that ...
Postage stamps of the French colonies. " French Colonies " is the name used by philatelists to refer to the postage stamps issued by France for use in the parts of the French colonial empire that did not have stamps of their own. These were in use from 1859 to 1906, and from 1943 to 1945.
Its first stamp, a 15 franc stamp of Madagascar overprinted TERRES AUSTRALES ET ANTARCTIQUES FRANÇAISES, was released on 28 October 1955 and the first non-overprinted stamps were released on 25 April 1956. [3] These consisted of a set of six regular issues in denominations from 50 centimes to 15 francs which depicted indigenous wildlife and ...