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Provisional special delivery overprint for Cuba, 1899. Later in 1899, the United States printed a series of six stamps for Cuba. They are known as the "Alegorías Cubana" or Cuban allegory stamps. Regular postage rates of 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 5¢ and 10¢ and a special delivery 10¢ bicycle stamp comprised this series. An 1899 stamp depicting Columbus.
The first Scott catalogue was a 21-page pamphlet with the title Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date, Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety. It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and ...
Michel catalog. The Michel catalog ( MICHEL-Briefmarken-Katalog) is the largest and best-known stamp catalog in the German -speaking world. First published in 1910, it has become an important reference work for philately, with information not available in the English-language Scott catalogue .
During the first seven weeks of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office still delivered mail from the seceded states. Mail that was postmarked after the date of a state's admission into the Confederacy through May 31, 1861, and bearing U.S. (Union) postage is deemed to represent 'Confederate State Usage of U.S. Stamps'. i.e., Confederate covers franked with Union stamps.
Edifil; Catálogo Especializado de Sellos de Cuba, Tomo I (1855–1958), 2nd Ed.; Madrid, 2002 (in Spanish). Jones, Wm. P. and Roy, Rudy J.; A Handbook of the Stamps of Cuba in 3 volumes. 3rd Ed. 2011. (complete through 1958) Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Volume 2, 2015; Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part 15, 3rd Edition, 2007
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.
A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types with descriptions and prices. The stamp catalog is an essential tool of philately and stamp collecting. Stamp catalogs are part of philatelic literature . Similar catalogs of other collectible objects. such as matchboxes ( phillumeny) and postcards ( deltiology ), have ...
After increasing the price of a first-class postage stamp to 68 cents in January, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to increase the cost again in the coming days.. The USPS will bump the cost of ...