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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    In 1767, the first post office was established in Manila, which was later organized as a postal district of Spain, encompassing Manila and the Philippine archipelago, in 1779. The postal district was reestablished on December 5, 1837. Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the Universal Postal Union ...

  3. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Antique (province) - Wikipedia

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    Antique is one of the six provinces comprising Western Visayas or Region VI, and one of the four provinces on the island of Panay . The province, with a total land area of 2,729.17 square kilometres (1,053.74 sq mi), [18] is an elongated stretch of land occupying the entire western side of the island.

  5. Postage stamps and postal history of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.

  7. Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State

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    The Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State ( Italian: Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico ), managed by Poste Vaticane, is responsible for issuing Vatican postal stamps and Vatican coins. The office was created on 11 February 1929 in the nations founding, and issued the first of the nations postal stamps on 1 August of the same ...

  8. Postage stamps and postal history of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    During 1945-1946, the Viet Minh government issued a large number of provisional postage stamps. These stamps were manufactured by adding an overprint to remaining stocks of the war-era stamps of French Indochina. Eventually, a set of definitive stamps depicting Ho Chi Minh were issued in 1946. 1951 30 piastres stamp issued by the Bảo Đại ...

  9. Category:Philately of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Philately of Spain". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Postage stamps and postal history of Spain.