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A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. Ford, who died in 2011, was an advocate for ...
France. A one-off stamp and a minisheet was released on March 11, 2000. In 2007, a set of six stamps, each depicting one of the characters - Tintin and Snowy, Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson, Bianca Castafiore and Chang. A minisheet comprising all the six stamps was issued along with the stamps.
The postal history of Puerto Rico began around 1518, at least for official mail, when Spain adopted general postal regulations; although the first documentation of Spanish postal regulations specific to the Caribbean was 1794. [1] The first postage stamps were issued 168 years ago for Puerto Rico and Cuba in 1856.
The first postage stamps were introduced on 1 April 1851, by a law passed on 11 March. The first value was a four ( Fire) rigsbankskilling stamp printed in brown, a square design with a crown, sword, and sceptre in the center. This was followed on 1 May by a 2rbs value in blue using the denomination as the design.
The first stamps of independent Kenya were issued on 12 December 1963. The stamps of Kenya were also valid in Uganda and Tanzania until 1976. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of British East Africa; Postage stamps and postal history of East Africa and Uganda Protectorates; Postage stamps and postal history of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika
A 1922 stamp of issued during the East Karelian Uprising. A 2.75 markka stamp of 1941. A semi-postal stamp of 1943. Karelia has appeared in philately several times; first as a breakaway republic from Soviet Russia in 1922, later when Eastern Karelia was occupied by Finland during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, and in the post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were ...