A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the... 55 KB (6,479 words) - 21:39, 20 April 2024 |
Postage stamp reuse is the technique of fraudulently reusing postage stamps from sent mail to avoid paying the cost of postage. A postage stamp is a small... 4 KB (582 words) - 20:28, 15 June 2023 |
Revenue stamps often look very similar to postage stamps, and in some countries and time periods it has been possible to use postage stamps for revenue... 15 KB (1,573 words) - 15:35, 9 March 2024 |
states, some of which produced stamps for use within their respective dominions, while British Indian postage stamps were required for sending mail beyond... 42 KB (5,030 words) - 21:50, 4 April 2024 |
Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps. Many thousands of designs have been created since a profile bust... 19 KB (2,609 words) - 00:59, 22 March 2024 |
A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or... 6 KB (668 words) - 06:09, 19 July 2023 |
a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps. These have been produced by a variety of techniques including line... 10 KB (1,145 words) - 03:49, 6 March 2024 |
Philately (redirect from Stamps and Stamp Collecting) fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products... 20 KB (2,294 words) - 13:15, 5 January 2024 |
Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain surveys postal history from the United Kingdom and the postage stamps issued by that country and its... 34 KB (4,203 words) - 14:28, 11 March 2024 |
list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error. Among the best-known stamps are: Penny... 6 KB (572 words) - 00:50, 11 March 2024 |
The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain... 57 KB (6,333 words) - 15:42, 6 April 2024 |
Apollo 15 postal covers incident (redirect from Apollo 15 Postage Stamp Scandal) astrophilately (space-related stamp collecting) began. Nations such as the United States and USSR issued commemorative postage stamps depicting spacecraft and... 68 KB (9,122 words) - 04:10, 15 March 2024 |
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation. Records mention a... 32 KB (3,930 words) - 09:05, 9 January 2024 |
led to his invention of stamp gum in 1837. The world's first adhesive postage stamp was called the Penny Black. Many early stamps were not gummed, however... 12 KB (1,746 words) - 01:37, 17 April 2024 |
S. postage stamps, the U.S. Post Office began commemorating the various events with its commemorative postage stamp issues. The first U.S. Postage issue... 36 KB (4,469 words) - 05:58, 26 April 2024 |
The colors of postage stamps are at once obvious, and among the most difficult areas of philately. Different denominations of stamps have been printed... 7 KB (955 words) - 20:03, 20 January 2024 |
the Federation. The stamps referred to above are those listed in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. A number of other stamps have also been issued... 17 KB (1,089 words) - 10:16, 8 March 2024 |
Penny Black (category Postage stamps) The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 but... 17 KB (1,876 words) - 21:35, 13 November 2023 |
A coffee stamp is a postage stamp with designs related to coffee. The oldest is believed to have been issued in Ethiopia in 1894. It is estimated that... 35 KB (3,924 words) - 01:21, 28 November 2023 |