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2. Postage stamps and postal history of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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   Any Indian stamps or covers used in Zanzibar between 1854 and 1876 are rare. A post office under Indian administration provided postal services from late 1868 through early 1869. This was re-opened 1 October 1875 as a foreign post office having special relations with the Indian Post Office, and the use of Indian stamps was required.

3. Postage stamps and postal history of Transvaal - Wikipedia

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   This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Transvaal, formerly known as the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR). 1869–1877 [ edit ] The first stamps of the South African Republic were issued on 1 May 1870, showing the coat of arms of the republic.

4. Postage due - Wikipedia

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   Postage due stamps (or "labels", to clarify that they have no value of their own) are not always affixed to individual letters; in the case of business mail, the total due might be summed, and the appropriate stamps added to the top letter in a bundle, or to a bundle's wrapper. The labels have also been used to collect money for other purposes ...

5. Postage stamps and postal history of the Democratic Republic ...

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   Stamp celebrating independence in June 1960. In 1960, the Belgian Congo became independent as the Republic of the Congo. On 1 August 1964, the state's official name was changed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire 1975 stamp of Zaire. In 1971, the state's name changed to Zaire. The first stamps of Zaire were issued on 18 December 1971.

6. Grill (philately) - Wikipedia

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   Grill (philately) "G" grill on a stamp of the 1869 issue. A grill on a postage stamp is an embossed pattern of small indentations intended to discourage postage stamp reuse. Used in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s, they were designed to allow the ink of the cancellation to be absorbed more readily by the fibres of the stamp paper ...

7. Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Ci–Co) - Wikipedia

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   The first Confederacy stamps were issued 18 October 1861. There were four issues in all with values ranging from 2 to 20 cents. All the stamps were definitive types with portraits of Jefferson Davis (Confederacy president) or of former Union presidents such as Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson . Dates.