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Costa Rica has produced its own stamps since 1863. [1] The first issue of stamps was printed by the American Bank Note Co., and consisted of values "Medio Real " (Blue), "Dos Reales" (Red), "Cuatro Reales" (Green) and "Un Peso" (Orange). In 1883, following the change in currency from Reales to the new Pesos and Centavos, the issue of 1863 was ...
The Society of Costa Rica Collectors (SOCORICO) (founded 1963) is an international philatelic society dedicated to the study of the postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica. SOCORICO is affiliate No. 96 of the American Philatelic Society. [1] The society journal, The Oxcart, has been published since 1960 and succeeded the Costa Rican ...
Dionisio de Herrera, head of state of Honduras and head of state of Nicaragua (1971) Rubén Odio H., archbishop of San José (1962) Vicente Herrera Zeledón, president of Costa Rica, 1876-77 (1946, 1961) Rowland Hill, postal reformer and originator of the postage stamp (1979)
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ( Spanish: Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde) is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, [1] the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest.
By: Maria Mercedes Galuppo. This is probably the only way you would enjoy spending the night in an airplane.Visit Costa Rica's Hotel Costa Verde, a hotel that offers a two-bedroom suite inside a ...
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 ...
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a former British colony in the Windward Islands, has produced stamps since 8 May 1861. [1] [2] The stamps featured either the British monarch’s head on them or the ER monogram and crown until around 1970. [3] The stamps were printed with just "St. Vincent" until 1992 when the stamps began to print the full ...