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unusual facts about postage stamps



Designers of Pakistani stamps

Over the last 60 years, various people have designed Pakistani stamps with many graduates of the National College of Arts (earlier Mayo School of Arts), Lahore.

Koos van Ellinckhuijzen

He is most noted for his work on Namibian and South West African postage stamps.

Obock

During its time as a French colony, Obock issued its own postage stamps; for more detail see Postage stamps and postal history of Obock.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Niger Territories

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Niger Territories, an area between the Forcados and Brasse Rivers, once administered by the Royal Niger Company but now part of modern Nigeria.

Revenue stamps of Transvaal

In 1901, ZAR postage stamps were overprinted E.R.I. PASS and a new value to pay for the fee for passports of native workers.


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ABBA awards and nominations

ABBA have two postage stamps of their own, issued by the Swedish Postal Service (Posten AB) in 1983 and 2000.

Anthony Calvillo

In 2012 in honour of the 100th Grey Cup, Canada Post used his image on a series of commemorative postage stamps.

Arnold Machin

In 1966 the Queen approved Machin's similar design for an effigy of her to be used on what come to be known as the "Machin series" of British definitive postage stamps.

Brookman

Lester George Brookman (1904–1971), of Minnesota, stamp dealer and expert on 19th Century US postage stamps and postal history

Charles Viner

Viner translated and published J.B. Moen's Postage Stamps Illustrated - A General Nomenclature of Every Postage Stamp and Facsimiles of All Types issued up to the present time in the Different Countries of the World 1840-1864.

Hasely Crawford

During his reign as the 100 metre Olympic champion, he also appeared on postage stamps and was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's highest honour, Trinity Cross, in 1978.

Helvetia

Thus, the name appears on postage stamps, coins and other uses; the full name, Confœderatio Helvetica, is abbreviated for uses such as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and vehicle registration code CH, and the ccTLD, .ch.

John Robert Boker, Jr.

Boker was able to put together some of the finest collections of rare postage stamps ever seen in philately, with his German States collection probably being his finest.

Jón Sveinsson

His childhood home in Akureyri is now a museum and he has featured on postage stamps.

Lancashire Witch

Lancashire Witch appeared on two postage stamps issued by Funafuti-Tuvalu on 24 December 1984.

Laurens Janszoon Coster

Behind the St. Bavochurch the printing factory of Joh. Enschedé was located, which from 1737-1940 printed the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant and from 1810 onwards became a mint that printed banknotes and later postage stamps.

Merchant's mark

This mark forms the central emblem displayed on the Scinde Dawk postage stamps.

Postage stamp booklet

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.

Postage stamps and postal history of Equatorial Guinea

Residents of Río Muni originally used the postage stamps of Spanish Guinea until 1960 when the Spanish government decreed the use of separate issues for Río Muni and Fernando Po (Bioko).

Raymond Henry Weill

Some of the famous rare postage stamps sold through the Weill brothers include the famous cover bearing two 1-penny Post Office Mauritius stamps from the collection of Louise Boyd Dale.

Scandinavian Collectors Club

The Scandinavian Collectors Club is a United States-based philatelic society dedicated to the collection and study of the postage stamps and postal history of the Scandinavia region, including the geographical regions of Åland, Aunus, the Danish West Indies, Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Karelia, North Ingermanland, Norway, Slesvig, and Sweden.

Siddharth Katragadda

He is the grandson of Sahitya Academy Award winning Telugu writer, Tripuraneni Gopichand, and great-grandson of revolutionary poet/reformer, Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, both of whose postage stamps were released by the Indian Government for their contribution to Telugu Literature.

Stephen Hickman

His most widely circulated effort is a series of space fantasy postage stamps done for the United States Postal Service.

Thomas Blackshear

Other U.S. postage stamps with Blackshear illustrations include portraits of Joe Louis, Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk for the Jazz Series, and illustrations for stamps commemorating James Cagney, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Beau Geste and Stagecoach for the Classic Hollywood Movies series, as well as several stamps for Classic Movie Monsters.

William Herbert Miller, Jr.

Miller specialized in the collection and study of air mail stamps, but especially postage stamps and postal history related to Zeppelin flights and Pigeon Posts.

Wim Crouwel

Later, Crouwel designed the Number Postage Stamps for the Dutch PTT, well known in the Netherlands during its circulation from 1976-2002.