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The Stamps and Posts of Albania and Epirus 1878 to 1945. Bristol: Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, 2002 ISBN 0952717727 285p. Smaili, B. et al. Pulla Poste Shqipetare = Albanian Postage Stamps, 1913-1959. Tirana: Botuar nga Drejtoria e Pergjitheshme P. T. T. te Republikes Popullore te Shquiperise, 1959.
The first Albanian postal stamps were issued on 5 May 1913. Under this government, six different stamps were produced. On 7 July 1913, the Albanian Provisional Government applied to become a member of the General Postal Union, a process that was completed on 1 March 1922. During this time, 17 offices were connected by 1,400 km (870 mi) of cables.
3. Denomination. 4. Country name. 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 cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...
1 drachma value of the 1914 Infantryman issue. The provisional government's first definitive stamps came out in February, March and April 1914. The set of eight stamps, with denominations of 1 lepton, 5, 10, 25 and 50 lepta, 1 drachma and 2 and 5 drachmae, depicted an infantryman aiming a rifle while others look on; the 10 lepta and 25 lepta values were inscribed only with ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ ...
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) of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service, [ 1 ] as a stream of new stamps was produced by ...
Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Sc–Sl) Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers. See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of ...
In the background of this postage stamp, at the lower part is the central pillar of the Albanian reform, the Qiriazi family: the brothers Gierasimi and Gjergji and the sisters Sevastia and Parashqevi, who among other things bore on their shoulders the spiritual revival, education and emancipation of Albanian society at the time of great ...
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 Britain. This list should be consistent with printed publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).