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1937 1½p stamp. Stamps issued by the Union of South Africa were used from 1914 until 1953. The first stamps inscribed "South West Africa" were issued bilingually in English and Afrikaans (Suidwes Afrika) on 1 January 1923. From 1970, the abbreviation "SWA" was in general use. [2]
Stamps of the South African Republic were overprinted "V.R.I." (Victoria Regina Imperatrix, Latin for Victoria, Queen and Empress) or "E.R.I." (Edward Rex Imperator, for Edward VII) between 1900 and 1902. In 1902 stamps for the Transvaal Colony were issued. Transvaal was incorporated into the Union of South Africa in 1910.
The first stamp of the Union of South Africa was a 2 1 ⁄ 2 d stamp issued on 4 November 1910. [2] [3] It portrayed the Monarch King George V and the arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. Most South African stamps issued between 1926 and 1951 were in pairs.
In 2005, after 111 years of producing American postage stamps, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ended its involvement with the postal service. On April 12, 2007, the Forever stamp went on sale for 41 cents, and is good for mailing one-ounce First-Class letters anytime in the future—regardless of price changes.
The device shown in the stamp resembles Andrew Ellicott's transit and equal altitude instrument (see Theodolite), which is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The stamp was the third in the Postal Service's Black Heritage stamp series. The featured portrait was one that ...
Postage stamps. The first Orange Free State stamps were issued in 1868. The sole design used was an orange tree, with the inscription "Oranje Vrij Staat" in the margin. The stamps were typographed by De La Rue and Company, and came in denominations from one penny to five shillings, in various colours. Periodic shortages forced the use of ...
The first Central African Republic stamp issued in 1959 depicting Boganda. The Central African Republic has been issuing stamps since 1959. Before this, it was called Ubangi-Shari. [ 1][ 2] Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous state within the French Community and was renamed the Central African Republic on 1 December 1958.
An ambitious project, the museum is still a work in progress. But on March 5, the museum finally opened. It represents African Americans in Anderson, Roane and Morgan counties (because Oliver ...