First Issues Collectors Club
First Issues Collectors Club promotes the collection of the first postage stamp issued by any nation, province, city, army or other entity that has, at any time, issued postage stamps, and facilitates the exchange of information about these issues among ...
Monday, September 15th, 2008
First Stamp Issues of South Australia
[Published by kind permission of the author.] South Australia was effectively the last of the Australian colonies to introduce stamps for the prepayment of postage. This happened at the beginning of 1855, five months after Western Australia, 14 months after Van ...
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Guam: The First Issue (1899)
The island of Guam, formerly administered as part of the Spanish Philippine Islands, was occupied by American troops in 1899 during the Spanish-American War. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...HabilitadoNyassa – First through Fifth Issue – 1898-19111794 Letter ...
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Stamps of Austria: The First Issues (1850)
Following the establishment of the German-Austrian Postal Union of 1850, Austria introduced stamps in denominations of 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9 kreuzers for use throughout the Habsburg dominions. They were engraved by H. Tautenhayn and typographed at the State Printing ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Stamps of Denmark: The First Issues (1851)
Denmark adopted adhesive stamps in April, 1851, when the 4 rigsbankskilling stamp was issued. A 2 rbs value, for Copenhagen local letters, was issued later the same month. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Denmark Stamps for the Moderate ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Stamps of France: The First Issues (1849)
The French ‘Penny Black’ made its début on New Year’s Day 1849. Although French postal administration closely observed the working of Uniform Penny Postage in Britain and the efficacy of adhesive stamps, eight years passed before the necessary legislation passed. If ...
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Stamps of Greece: The First Postage Due Stamps (1875)
Greece’s first postage due stamps were issued on March 1, 1875. Curiously enough the Greek postal authorities had always had their postage due stamps printed in Vienna until 1902, although their ordinary issues had been printed at various places, but ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Stamps of Haiti: The First Issues (1881-91)
Haiti’s first stamps, depicting the head of Liberty, were typographed from electrotypes, made from a die engraved on wood. They were in use from 1881 to 1887, when they were replaced by a series, recess- printed by Skipper and East of ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Stamps of Horta: The First Issues (1892-1905)
This district of the Azores had its own stamps from 1892 until 1905, and subsequently used the stamps of the Azores until 1931. The only point of interest in what is If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Stamps of ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Stamps of Israel: The First Issues (1948)
The first stamps of Israel were inscribed in Hebrew ‘Doar Ivri’ (Hebrew Post) and featured coins issued by the Jewish authorities at the time of the first and second Jewish revolts against the Romans, or in the reign of the ...
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Stamps of Italy: The First Issues (1862)
The first stamps of the united kingdom of Italy consisted of the series of Sardinia with perforations added. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Stamps of Nova Scotia: The First Issues (1851-7)Italy: Dante Centenary Stamps 1921Stamps of Austria: The ...
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Stamps of Latvia: The First Issues (1918)
Issued from December 1918, the wheat-ears and sunrise emblem for this series was designed by Ansis Zuhrul and lithographed by A. Schnackenburg of Riga. Shortage of paper led to surprising materials being used. At first the stamps were printed on ...
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Stamps of Modena: The First Issues (1852)
The Duchy of Modena introduced adhesive stamps in June 1852 (pictured above). If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...Stamps of the Philippines: The First Issues (1854-74)Stamps of Austria: The First Issues (1850)Stamps of Denmark: The First Issues (1851)
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Stamps of Moheli: The First Issues (1906-1912)
Moheli, the fourth island of the Comoros, did not adopt its own stamps until 1906 and therefore avoided many of the permutations, which characterised the other islands’ issues. Like the others, however, it had a rash of provisional 5 and 10c. ...
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Stamps of Nova Scotia: The First Issues (1851-7)
Adhesive stamps were introduced in Nova Scotia in September 1851, in denominations of 3d., 6d. and 1s. They were recess-printed by Perkins Bacon in a diamond-format featuring the heraldic flowers of the United Kingdom and the mayflower of Nova Scotia, with ...
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Stamps of Obock: The First Issues (1892)
[Originally published in the Philatelic Monthly, 1892] Obock is a French Colony on the Red Sea coast of Africa, on the gulf of Aden. The territory embraces 2,300 square miles with a population of 22,370. Stamps will be issued on January ...
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Stamps of Romagna: The First Issues (1859)
Adhesive stamps were not introduced in Romagna until September 1859, when a series from ½ to 20 bajocchi were issued. The stamps were typographed by Volpi and del Sassi of Bologna from electroypes by Amoretti Brothers. These stamps were suppressed in February ...
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Stamps of Thailand (Siam): The First Issues (1883)
Thailand’s first postage stamps appeared in August 1883, Waterlow and Sons recess-printing printing different designs and using different colours to denote the values: solot (½ att), att, sio (2 atts), sik (4 atts) and salung (6 atts). If you enjoyed this ...
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Stamps of the Philippines: The First Issues (1854-74)
Adhesive stamps were adopted by the Philippine Islands in February 1854. The stamps were printed in Manila from locally engraved plates. All stamps up to 1874 portrayed Queen Isabella II of Spain and, as in the mother country, new designs were ...
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Stamps of Venezuela: The First Issues (1859-1865)
Adhesive stamps were adopted by Venezuela in 1859. The first issue, with the coat of arms, being lithographed by an unidentified American printer. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...The Stamps of Venezuela: Escuelas 1871-79 (1925)Stamps of Denmark: The ...
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Sweden’s First Air Mail Stamp
Today most mail is routinely being sent by air, as this is the fastest way of transporting it from one place to another. However, it did take quite some time for airmail to be generally accepted. In the early days ...
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The Penny Black: Daddy of Them All
William Cochrane. This is an article written by Richard Albert Hardie back in 1935. It’s a fascinating article, and bound to be of interest to all stamp collectors. Aside from this being the Silver Jubilee year of the reign of King ...
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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