and Ireland when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840. These stamps, and all subsequent British issues, were used throughout Ireland until...
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first Irish stamps issued by the Provisional Government of Ireland were the then-current British definitive postage stamps bearing a portrait of George...
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from Sweden Postage stamps have facilitated the delivery of mail since the 1840s. Before then, ink and hand-stamps (hence the word 'stamp'), usually made...
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postage stamps of Ireland are the regular series of definitive postage stamps issued by the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1937 and by Republic of...
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definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period of time...
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a 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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miniature sheet. The stamps (2) are circular. History of Dublin Postage stamps of Ireland Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No....
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Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain surveys postal history from the United Kingdom and the postage stamps issued by that country and its...
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use postage stamps for revenue purposes, and vice versa. Some countries also issued dual-purpose postage and revenue stamps. Revenue stamps are stamps used...
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(NVI) postage. Introduced to reduce the cost of printing large issues of low-value stamps to "top-up" old issues,[citation needed] NVI stamps are used...
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This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great...
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regional postage stamps of Great Britain, are the postage stamps issued for regions of the United Kingdom, reflecting the regional identity of the various...
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Éire (redirect from Eire (Republic Of Ireland))
referred to as Ireland or its equivalent in all other languages. The name "Éire" has been used on Irish postage stamps since 1922; on all Irish coinage (including...
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A postage stamp booklet (also called stamp book) is a booklet made up of one or more small panes of postage stamps in a cardboard cover. Booklets are often...
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printed stamp area is 18.0mm x 22.5mm compared to 18.5mm x 22.0mm on the original. Postage stamps of Ireland Definitive postage stamps of Ireland Notes...
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Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection)...
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list documents postage stamp designs by the Irish artist, Robert Ballagh for the Irish postal service. Ballagh's first postage stamp design was released...
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Paul Costelloe (category Irish fashion designers)
is an Irish designer and artist. In 2010, Costelloe was one of six contemporary Irish fashion designers featured on a set of Irish postage stamps issued...
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Black featured a profile of Queen Victoria, it has been a tradition worldwide for nations to honor people on their postage stamps. Typical choices include...
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alphabetical list of people on stamps of the United Kingdom. (The number in parentheses is the year of first appearance on a stamp.) Until 2005, the Royal...
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Philately (redirect from Stamps and Stamp Collecting)
fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products...
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John Rocha (category Chinese expatriates in Ireland)
Kennedy, Lainey Keogh, Philip Treacy and Orla Kiely. List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland "John Rocha Fashion". www.johnrocha.ie. Archived from...
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Cancellation (mail) (redirect from Postage stamp cancellation)
collectors collect cancellations in addition to the stamps themselves. The first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in 1840 by Great Britain...
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Rory Gallagher (category Irish male songwriters)
(1982) Defender (1987) Fresh Evidence (1990) List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland (2002) List of blues musicians "Rory Gallagher's birth certificate"...
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of United Kingdom commemorative stamps deals with commemorative stamps issued by Royal Mail, the postal administration of the United Kingdom. Postage...
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catalogue of postage stamps for the use of collectors, London, Robert Hardwicke, 1862 "Early Postage Stamp Catalogs" by George B. Sloane in Stamps, 13 July...
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forerunner is a postage stamp used before a region or territory issued stamps of its own. The term also includes stamps of the political predecessors of a country...
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William Mulready (category 19th-century Irish painters)
Melville, Fred J, Postage Stamps in the Making, p71, Stanley Gibbons, 1916. "Mulready stationery: Caricatures". The Queen's Own: Stamps That Changed the...
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Penny Red (category Postage stamps of the United Kingdom)
British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
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Daniel Day-Lewis (category English people of Irish descent)
List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland List of Academy Award records List of British Academy Award nominees and winners List of Irish Academy...
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