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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Argentine postage stamps were first issued in 1858 by the Argentine Confederation and nationally by the new Republic's National Postal Service in 1862. Due to the continuing civil wars, a number of provinces and territories, particularly in the then-remote far north and far south, continued to issue their own postage brands and stamps for some ...
The 1 cent stamps for the army and navy issues were issued on the same date, and respectively for the other denominations. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States; Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps; Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps; Champion of Liberty commemorative stamps
This is a survey of the postal history and postage stamps of French Polynesia, formerly known as the French Oceania. [1] The first postage stamps used in French Polynesia were the general stamps of the French Colonies from 1862. [2] In 1882 a shortage of 25c stamps necessitated a surcharge on less-used values.
The 1c value from the first postage stamp of Guatemala, issued 1871. An 1898 telegraph stamp of Guatemala, produced by overprinting an earlier postage stamp. Guatemala has been independent from Spain since 1847. The first adhesive stamps of Guatemala were revenue stamps issued in 1868. [1] [2] The first postage stamps were produced in 1871.