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History. 1892 Straits Settlements stamp. A postal service had been available in Singapore since the contemporary city was founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819. Postal services were first directly organised in Singapore in 1826, and from 1829 rectangular postmarks began to be used on local correspondence.
In 1910 new stamps appeared with values of $25 and $500 (although available for postage, their more usual use was fiscal). George V replaced Edward VII on stamps beginning in 1912, reusing the frames and replacing only the vignettes. These stamps were overprinted in 1922 to mark the Malaya-Borneo Exhibition. The Straits Settlements also joined ...
The postage stamps and postal history of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, was linked to its original economic situation until 1993. Mainly ruled by a phosphate production commission, the island was part of the British Straits Settlements colony from 1901 to 1942, then of Singapore from 1946 to 1958. Although it was placed under Australian ...
The Minkus catalogue was a comprehensive of American and worldwide postage stamps, edited by George A Tlamsa and published by Krause Publications. In the United States Minkus competed with the Scott catalogue as a distant second. Generally sold through department store stamp collecting departments, it had its own system of numbering stamps ...
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 ...
Rows of perforations in a sheet of 1940 postage stamps The Penny Red, 1854 issue, the first officially perforated postage stamp The first officially perforated United States stamp (1857) Perforations are small holes made between individual postage stamps on a sheet of stamps, facilitating separation of a desired number of stamps. The resulting ...
A postal agency was opened in the Cocos between 1 April 1933 and 1 March 1937. Postage stamps of the Straits Settlements were available successively picturing Kings George V and George VI. [3] The Cocos were administered from the Settlements. During World War II, the British forces defended the islands' telecommunication devices against the ...
Four stamps and one Souvenir sheet were issued on this occasion These stamps were printed in se-tanent Block of Four stamps throughout the sheet. Value: 40p, 75p, Rs. 1, Rs. 1.50 Souvenir Sheet Rs. 2 1979 –9 Fight against cancer – 12 November 1979; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 40 p