The Royal Philatelic Collection of Queen Elizabeth II has many telegraph stamps as George V was an enthusiastic collector.
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The telegraph was superseded by the fax, email, and mobile telephone text messages, and the last telegraph stamps are thought to have been issued in the early 1990s by Honduras or The Dominican Republic.
The Daily Telegraph | telegraph | postage stamp | The Sunday Telegraph | Terence Stamp | Stamp Act | Postage stamp | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | The Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Sheffield Telegraph | Telegraph Media Group | Belfast Telegraph | Transatlantic telegraph cable | Telegraph Hill | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union | Rachel Stamp | Telegraph Hill, San Francisco | Stamp Act 1765 | definitive stamp | Christmas stamp | Australian Overland Telegraph Line | The Morning Telegraph | Telegraph Creek | Gibbons Stamp Monthly | Electrical telegraph | Coventry Telegraph | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | The House on Telegraph Hill | Telegraph key | Telegraph Creek, British Columbia |
Booklets of telegraph stamps are known to have been issued by the California State Telegraph Company in 1870, and by Western Union in 1871, and on 14 October 1884 an A.W. Cooke of Boston received Patent 306,674 from the United States Patent Office for the idea of putting postage stamps into booklets.