- 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...
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adhesive postage stamps,
first issued by the U.S.
government post
office July 1, 1847, in the
denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of
stamps made...
- For
postage stamps,
separation is the
means by
which individual stamps are made
easily detachable from each other.
Methods of
separation include: perforation:...
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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...
- states, some of
which produced stamps for use
within their respective dominions,
while British Indian postage stamps were
required for
sending mail beyond...
- 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...
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appeared on U.S.
postage stamps since the mid-19th century. The
United States Post
Office Department released its
first two
postage stamps in 1847, featuring...
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Postage stamps and
postal history of the
United Kingdom surveys postal history and the
postage stamps issued by that
country (known in
philatelic circles...
- 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...
- 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...
