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Postage stamps and postal history of Colombia. Granadine Confederation, 1859 20c blue. Stone A, Positions 1-4, 12-15, block of eight with top left corner sheet margins, containing the inverted transfer, Position 13, forming a tete-beche multiple with adjoining stamps. Colombia is a country in north-western South America.
Canal Zone Airmail cover, franked with 25c overprint on Goethals 1928 issue, Postmarked Feb. 12, 1931. The first Canal Zone air mail stamps were issued in 1928—1929, with rates of postage over-printed on existing Canal Zone permanent issue stamps, issued in 1929. [32] Canal Zone's air mail stamp, issue of 1929.
A 1915 stamp of Panama. Panama was formerly a department of Colombia and used overprints of Colombian stamps from 1878 until it gained independence in 1903. However, from 1903 to 1905 sets of stamps with overprints were still used and it was only in 1906 that the first printed stamps by the Panamanian postal administration were produced with República de Panamá.
The 2¢ Landing of Columbus is the most common stamp of the Columbian Issue. The Columbian Issue, also known as the Columbians, is a set of 16 postage stamps issued by the United States to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago during 1893. The finely-engraved stamps were the first commemorative stamps issued by the United ...
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.
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Pedro Alcántara Herrán, Colombian general, statesman and president, 1841-45 (1957) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican War of Independence (1955) Sir Rowland Hill, postal reformer and inventor of the postage stamp (1979) Carlos Holguín Mallarino, president of Colombia, 1888-92 (1981)
An 1882 stamp of Cundinamarca. Cundinamarca is a department of Colombia, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". As with the other states, Cundinamarca once had the right to issue its own postage stamps, and it issued stamps with the state's coat of arms, starting in 1870 and ending in 1904. Many of these are still ...