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Stamps for official use were prepared and carefully accounted for to combat the abuse of privileges by officials. In 1854 Spain had printed special stamps for official communications, but in 1866 India was the first country to adopt the simple expedient of overprinting 'Service' on postage stamps and 'Service Postage' on revenue stamps. This ...
Qazi Muhammad Isa (Urdu: قاضی محمد عیسیٰ; 17 July 1914 – 19 June 1976) was a Pakistani politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan.He was an advocate of the Pakistan Movement and represented Balochistan in the Lahore Conference that led to the ratification of Lahore Resolution.
The success of the Muslim League in the referendum was the basis for the British government to allocate NWFP to Pakistan. [2] [3] ... Commemorative postage stamp
Yusuf Khattak was born into a prominent Pashtun Khattak family, of Karak, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. [1] His father, Khan Bahadur Kuli Khan Khattak, was an influential figure in the nationalist politics of the then-NWFP.
Besides postage stamps and souvenir sheets, the post office also sells first day covers, leaflets with and without stamps on it and postal stationery. Earlier, the post office did not use any specific numbering system but this changed when they started using a rather simple system on their leaflets: xxxx – y where xxxx is the year and y is ...
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853 ...
Spain started issuing postage stamps to be used in Ifni in 1941, initially overprinting Spanish stamps with "TERRITORIO DE IFNI", then issuing new designs in 1943. Issues followed at the rate of about ten per year with the last on 23 November 1968.
The portrayals of various American presidents made their first appearances on U.S. postage at different times for very different reasons. Among the most definitive is George Washington, whose engraving (along with that of Benjamin Franklin) appeared on the first U.S. Postage stamps released by the U.S. Post Office, on July 1 of 1847.