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Spanish provinces. From 30 July 1959 to 11 October 1968, Fernando Poo and Río Muni were treated as overseas provinces of Spain until they combined to form Equatorial Guinea on 12 October 1968 . Fernando Poo and Río Muni originally used postage stamps of Spanish Guinea until 1960 when the Spanish government decreed the use of separate issues ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 1962 stamp of Guinea. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Guinea . The Republic of Guinea (Fr: République de Guinée) is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city. Guinea forms a crescent by curving from its western ...
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 privately run packet service for mail existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice. The first adhesive stamps produced by British Guiana were issued in 1850. British Guiana is famous among philatelists for its early postage stamps ...
Upload file; Search. Search. ... Postage stamps and postal history of La Agüera; B. ... E. Postage stamps and postal history of Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco ...
Indonesian stamp issued for Western New Guinea in 1963. Since 1963 Western New Guinea has been part of Indonesia. The Indonesian postal service is responsible for mail in the region. Netherlands New Guinea stamps were superseded on 1 May 1963 by stamps of Indonesia overprinted "IRIAN BARAT" and a series of six commemoratives whose designs ...