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| | San Antonio Alamo Area Local - History of the United States Post Office |
 | | In 1831,when steam-driven engines traveling at the unconscionable speed of 15 miles an hour" were denounced as a "device of Satan to lead immortal souls to hell, railroads began to carry mail for short distances. | | | By 1836, two years before railroads were constituted post roads, the Postal Service had awarded its first mail contract to the railroads. | | | As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, helicopters, and pneumatic tubes, mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways that eventually spanned the continent. |
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| | Transcontinental Mail on the Pacific Railroad |
| | A replica of that car was included as a part of the railway postal car exhibit sponsored by the Burlington Route at the 1933-34 “Century of Progress” World’s Fair in Chicago. | | | Cato Journal - The Challenge to the U.S. Postal Monopoly, 1839-1851 - Railroads | | | Map of Post Offices visited by trains of the Central Pacific Railroad on local lines, Oakland, California. |
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http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Postal.html
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| | Jim Mehrer's Postal History & Postcards |
| | We also offer a selection of postal history and postcard reference literature, and a broad line of supplies for collectors and dealers. | | | To see our list of Supplies for Collectors of Postcards and Postal History, click here. | | | To see our Show Calendar for Collectors of Postcards, Postal History and Stamps, click here. |
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http://www.deltiology.com/indxl-pc.html
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| | State Postal History, L - W |
| | Maryland Postal History and Handstamped Markings of the Stampless Period by D. Homer Kendall Each town is covered individually starting with a brief description and continuing with the markings, much background information. | | | Michigan, Upper Michigan Postal History and Postmarks by W. Taylor In addition to the usual listing of POs and dates we have some articles ranging from early mail service to FDCs, enjoyable. | | | Montana, The Postal History of Montana through June 30, 1870 by Meschter An enjoyable and useful study, history, PO dates, covers, etc. 1989, 92 pages, card, La Posta Monograph 4, $12.00 |
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http://www.pbbooks.com/stateb.htm
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| | South-Pole.com: Arctic & Antarctic History on the Net |
| | An extentensive display of rare Arctic postal material covers the period from 1675-1998. | | | You will be amazed at the number and rarity of pieces displayed... | | | There are a number of items, from as recently as OPERATION DEEPFREEZE, that command very high prices. |
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http://www.south-pole.com/homepage.html
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| | A SNAPSHOT OF EGYPT'S POSTAL HISTORY, December 3, 1994 |
| | As railways expanded, new postal branches were added. | | | When he passed away the company was taken over by Meratti's heirs, Cleo and Tito Chini (d.1864), and the latter's associate Giacomo Muzzi from Bologna. | | | As chairman of the Delta Land and Investment Company, Mazloum Pasha was for some time responsible for the suburb of Maadi. |
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http://www.egy.com/historica/94-12-03.shtml
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| | Postalhistorystore.com |
| | We are always in the market for purchasing large and small collection. | | | We specialize in Postal History, First Day covers and Patriotic covers, however, we do carry other philatelic and non-philatelic items including autographs. |
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http://www.postalhistorystore.com
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| | French postal history - home |
| | Addresses section you will get all the addresses of auction houses, dealers, experts, societies, and postal museums which are relevant for our hobby. | | | This webpage is dedicated to French postal history and consists of two parts. | | | Questions section includes the possibility to ask the internet community for information or to present interesting items. |
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http://de.geocities.com/tbbch/FPH/FPHindex.htm
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| | Postal History and Covers for Philatelists @ Lingens.com |
| | Each site is designed to appeal to a different type of collector. | | | On our Postal History site World-Postal-History.com you will find almost 7,000 covers for sale, all scanned, with an easy to use search engine. | | | Postal History is the collection and study of envelopes and other items that went through the mail -- the markings, the routes the mail took, and the stamps used. |
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http://www.lingens.com
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| | Postal history, philatelic covers for sale |
| | London Stamp Exchange are pleased to offer stamp and postal history collectors worldwide our interesting stock of postal history items. | | | Specialists in philately, postal history, philatelic covers and postmarks | | | If you are searching for any particular country or theme then please email us and we will try to help! |
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http://www.the-stamp-collector.com
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| | Welcome the Postal Censorship Site |
| | These examples have been made available by the generosity of some dedicated collectors who want to share their material with others - | | | The Military Postal History Society, previously the War Covers Club, is based in the United States and concentrated on US military mail but now has a worldwide outlook | | | The more than 350 members of the British based Forces Postal History Society study all aspect of worldwide military mail since it was founded in 1952 |
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http://www.postalcensorship.com
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| | Philately and Postal History |
| | Through this site you are also able to track National and International events. | | | Philatelists, postal historians and philatelic societies around the world are able to communicate with each other and have immediate access to the Web sites of dealers and auction houses. | | | This site has now been in operation for 4 years, and has established itself, through the enthusiasm of our users, as the premier portal site for Postal Historians. |
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http://philatelyandpostalhistory.com
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| | Postage Stamps and Postal History Stamp Room |
| | You can download them, as a.ZIP or.PDF file -- whatever your location. | | | In fact, we probably have just about any postage stamp or postal history item that you've ever wanted, from any country throughout the world. | | | Postage Stamps - if this is what you are looking for, from just about any country throughout the world, please take a look at what we have to offer. |
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http://www.stamproom.co.uk
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| | Broome County Postal History |
| | Handwritten "Answered October 14, 1863" on rear flap | | | Black maltese cross killer on 1 cent black postal card (UX5) |
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http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ormonde/117/covers6.html
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| | MODERN U.S. POSTAL HISTORY * ROLAND AUSTIN |
| | Therefore, anything other than Liberties is eligible, even some items that date back to 1949, since that was the first year of the modern air mail postcard rate. | | | Send comments, additions, or suggestions by clicking the mail! | | | Welcome to my modern U.S. postal history page! |
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http://members.aol.com/raustin13/modernph/conph.htm
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| | IPHStempwp |
| | To be anounced when Spring Stamp Fair plans set by ISC | | | Held in conjunction with the APS National Level show | | | Dedicated to the preservation of all eras of Indiana Postal History |
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http://www.theryles.com/iphs
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| | Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast & Jamaica Covers & Postal History |
| | Five auction catalogues of the Italy and colonies Study Circle: 30 March 1996, 29 June 1996, 14 September 1996, 14 December 1996, 27 September 1997. | | | XXII, no 3 (whole number 89), summer 1996: Trieste, civilian postmarks of Libya 1911-1942, suspension of mail servicies, early censorship in Eritrea, peace between Sweeden and San Marino and more. | | | XXII, no 2 (whole number 88), spring 1996: stamp booklets, postal stationery cut-outs, Ufficio Notizie, mail from the Ukraine, Servizio Riscossioni, L.A.T.I., Fiume, Salonika and more. |
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http://www.judnick.com/LotsOfCovers/IsleOfMan-Jamaica.htm
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| | Canada Postal History: Home Page |
| | and check out the other services we offer for postal history collectors! | | | The BC Philatelic Society has been a meeting place for Vancouver-area stamp collectors and postal historians since 1919. | | | We now consign postal history material to the following auction outlets: |
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| | Aden Postal History & Advertising Covers |
| | November 18 1915 HALE COMPANY CHAIRS DESKS and FURNITURE, New York City, #6 cover to West Virginia (2-cent Washington stamp), blue-green globe design behind corner card, neatly opened. | | | August 13, 1912 RICHMOND RETURN TO WRITER POINTING FINGER and red numeral 6 in circle (applied twice on front) to #6 cover from West Virginia bearing large Bentley and Gerwig Furniture Co. advertising cachet, two different Richmond backstamps including red Directory 6, rough opening at top but closes well, corner furthest from stamp is creased. | | | MAR 8 1913 clear Grand Rapids Michigan cancel on 2-c Washington #6 postal stationery with all-over back depiction of Nichols and Cox Lumber Company mill and distributing yards at Grand Rapids (in BandW), backstamped on arrival with Parkersburg West Virginia flag, neatly opened, slight BP. |
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http://www.judnick.com/LotsOfCovers/AbuDhabi-Advertising.htm
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| | Postal history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For a time after the Anschluss in 1938, letters from Austria to Germany were required to add German stamps, resulting in a mixed franking. | | | Postal history is the study of the development of postal systems. | | | Postal history has since become a speciality in its own right. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_history
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| | Postal History Society |
| | The rise and fall of stage coach, railroad and truck mails; the development of postal systems and methods of handling mail; disinfected, censored, delayed or wreck covers, and correspondence from prison and internment camps are within its domain. | | | It is richly illustrated and is printed on high quality paper stock. | | | Postal History, therefore, is telling the story of how mail has been handled, who has handled it, and why. |
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http://www.stampclubs.com/phs
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| | National Postal Museum |
| | From 1918-1926, a few daredevil pilots and some aging aircraft made history and bound the country together by air. | | | Among those who lost their lives when the ship sank were the ship's five postal clerks. | | | John Lennon's childhood stamp album is currently on display at the National Postal Museum. |
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http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/2_exhibits.html
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| | Postage stamps and postal history of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1895 counterfeits of the 2¢ value were discovered, which prompted the BEP to begin issuing stamps printed on watermarked paper for the first time in US history; a practice that would be abandoned in 1917. | | | Many of these are quite rare, with only single examples surviving of some types. | | | Self-adhesives were not issued again until 1989, gradually becoming so popular that as of 2004, only a handful of types are offered with the traditional gum (now affectionately called "manual stamps" by postal employees.) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States
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| | Modern US stamps and other philatelic items of interest to Joann |
| | Private companies also produced dummy stamps to work with their equipment and to demonstrate their products. | | | Some of the stamps were produced to test BEP's own printing and manufacturing processes. | | | Postal Counterfeits are not created to fool collectors but rather to defraud the postal service. |
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http://stampsjoann.net
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| | Jim Forte Postal History |
| | U.S. Postal History By State Use this section to browse for covers based upon the place where they were used. | | | Military Postal History Browse here for war covers I have over 75,000 military covers of all types, with a strong emphasis on U.S. World War II material. | | | Covers begin in the 18th Century and continue to the modern era. |
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http://www.postalhistory.com
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| | Postal History at Playle's - Postal History Auctions |
| | Sellers: if possible include a scan of the item, it usually helps the item sell, and "shows" the condition of the item. | | | You are encouraged, but not required, to use our grading system when selling Postal History and Covers. | | | EX - Excellent: A Cover, Entire, or Postal Card which clean and undamaged, will have well-struck postal markings and sound stamps. |
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http://www.playle.com/postalhistory.html
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| | Toke Nørby's Home Page. |
| | Postal History and Philately - and Philately/Postal History "out there"! | | | The logo below is the old GPO logo used before World War Two. | | | This "Postflag" is mostly used by ships in regular postal service. |
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http://www.norbyhus.dk
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| | Postal Art History |
| | Because when art is travelling the planet at the speed of a hundred artists per hour, it all gets cut up and recycled and spit out the other end. | | | Now Spaceco was one of the many official-sounding names that the artists started to use to mock the postal system and other bureaucracies. | | | But art or not, that's how it spread to more than 50 countries and thousands of people all over the world. |
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| | North Carolina State Archives Postal History Project |
| | Normally, these were items that originated in North Carolina, but sometimes they were items that originated elsewhere, were sent to North Carolina and then were redirected within the North Carolina postal system. | | | This field is blank for those items in the Postal History Collection because a Call Number has not been assigned to this collection yet. | | | Although the commission ended in 2000, the postal history project effort has continued by the work of two original commission members. |
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http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/postal
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| | Stamps and postal history of Switzerland at opensource encyclopedia |
| | These continued in use, with a number of variations in color, perforation, and paper, until 1907. | | | 1900 saw Switzerland's first commemorative stamps, a set of three values issued for the 25th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, with an allegorical design featuring various symbols of communication. | | | The first stamps used in Switzerland were issued by the cantons of Zürich Geneva, and Basel for their own use, with the first federal issues coming several years later. |
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http://www.wiki.tatet.com/Stamps_and_postal_history_of_Switzerland.html
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| | Panama Canal Zone - Postal History |
| | Gorgona, Matachin, and Empire and then the Canal Zone Postal Service was in operation with railroad station agents as postmasters. | | | The last such item replaced was the 2 cent postal card on November 1, 1958. | | | During 1905, a registry system was established and the Cristobal post office was designated an international exchange office, permitting direct dispatches of mail to all destinations. |
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| | Emirates Postal Museum - Abu Dhabi Postal History |
| | During the year 1959, there was an arrangement for providing a mail service for the several hundred oil company employees on the Das Island. | | | At the end of the first day’s operations, the demand for stamps was much greater than the postal authorities had anticipated and the postmaster remarked that he had exhausted his entire supply of Rs. | | | Also the first three Abu Dhabi sets were used during the British postal administration, this includes 25 Abu Dhabi different stamps. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ok/ABUDHABISTAMPS
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| | Postal History, Rare Stamps, Stamp Collecting: CompuStamp |
| | We have been a serious postal history and stamp collector for more than thirty years and have been buying and selling at major international and national stamp shows for more than two decades. | | | We have an extensive stock of stamp and postal history material on hand, as well as a network of world-class dealers. | | | All items have high-quality pictures to show the markings and cancels, the quality of the item, and the stamps. |
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http://www.compustamp.com
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| | F.P.H.S. - Forces Postal History Society |
| | Why not join the premier Forces Postal History Society, a society run by collectors for the benefit of collectors? | | | Cheques should be made payable to: The Forces Postal History Society. | | | Michael Dobbs (Hon Secretary, Forces Postal History Society) |
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http://www.postalcensorship.com/fphs
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| | Postal history of Hong Kong & Treaty Ports. |
| | The following e-mail addresses are displayed as graphics so that Internet marketers cannot automatically copy them to their bulk mailing lists. | | | Postal history of Hong Kong and Treaty Ports. | | | There is no change to the basic UK rate - these alterations are to cope with changes to currency conversion rates. |
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http://www.hongkongstudycircle.com
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| | USPS - Research |
| | Complete sets of the Annual Report, Postal Bulletin, and ZIP Code Directory, a nearly complete set of the Official Register, and a partial set of the Congressional Serial Set can be found in the: | | | The Postal Bulletin contains a significant amount of information on star, railway, rural, air mail, and other mail routes, from 1880 until about the 1940s. | | | Upon written request by postal employees, the USPS Historian's staff can provide the names and appointment dates of postmasters who have served at particular post offices, post office establishment and discontinuance dates, and the dates of any post office name changes. |
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http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt021.cfm
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Postage stamps & postal history of China |
| | Through the first half of 1897, new stamps were unavailable, and so the existing stock was surcharged in cents, with several variants distinguished by philatelists. | | | The story of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. | | | By August the deteriorating political situation had caught up with the postal system, and the Nationalists' last issues on the mainland were two of a planned series of pictorial designs denominated in silver yuan. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/P/PO/POS/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_China
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| | British Postal History |
| | In 1784 new postal rates were introduced which made the distance a letter was carried more important, and the mileage from London began to appear in Provincial Postmarks. | | | In the course of these 200 years there were two postal systems for London, the General Post and the Penny Post. | | | These systems were run concurrently, but had different offices, staff, acccounting and of course, different postal markings. |
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| | Postal History Intro |
| | These web pages present selected items of the Faroes postal history illustrating its reliance upon the mainland through: (a) use of Danish stamps and other materials, and (b) provisional issues when the former were not available. | | | The development of the intra-Faroes postal service is illustrated by reference to the cancellation devices, many examples of which can only be found on loose stamps or on piece, used in the various post offices. | | | During the period covered by these web pages, as a part of Denmark, the Faroes used Danish stamps and relied on the mainland for their supply as well as for other related materials, such as cancellation devices. |
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http://www.faroestampsite.com/posthist.htm
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| | Post Office in Paradise: Mail and Postage Stamps of Nineteenth Century Hawaii |
| | For a list of some societies and clubs a collector of Hawaiian stamps and postal history should consider joining, please go to Societies and Clubs. | | | You are at a site dedicated to the study and sharing of information about the stamps and postal history of Hawaii in the years before it became a territory of the United States on June 14, 1900. | | | For an image of Henry Whitney's 1890 map of the Pacific, please click Here. |
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http://www.hawaiianstamps.com
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| | Missouri Postal History Society |
| | "The purpose of the Missouri Postal History Society is to gather, study, preserve and disseminate infromation regarding the postal history of the state of Missouri from the pre-territoial era to the present." | | | The Missouri Postal History Society was founded at the St. Louis Stamp Expo in March, 1999. | | | You may also get information by filling in our |
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| | Jeff's Stamp Page |
| | Jeff's company specializing in selling Computer CD-ROM coasters to the public. | | | These web pages present selected items of Faroe Islands postal history illustrating its reliance upon the mainland through: (a) use of Danish stamps and other materials, and (b) provisional issues when the former were not available. | | | Links to several philatelic societies and postal administrations are also provided. |
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http://www.faroestampsite.com
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| | World Postal History |
| | U.S. Postal Money Orders, or any other US$ money orders purchased in the US, or drawn on a US bank are acceptable. | | | Birthday cards often include cash, and postal handlers around the world know it! | | | We recommend you do not send cash in a greeting card sized envelope. |
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http://www.world-postal-history.com/payments.shtml
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| | Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History |
| | It welcomes stamp collectors and philatelic students from around the world. | | | © 2000-2006 Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History. | | | The Spellman Museum engages diverse audiences of all ages in the opportunities to learn from stamps and postal history. |
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| | USPS - Postal History |
| | Today, the Postal Service™ delivers hundreds of millions of messages each day to more than 141 million homes and businesses. | | | In the more than two centuries since USPS® began, it has grown and changed with America. | | | Discovering the history of the Postal Service is a journey into the history of transportation, economics, industrialization, communications, and government. |
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http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/welcome.htm
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| | Estonian Postal History |
| | Those covers were very common in the USSR and retailing at just one kopeck above the face value of the imprinted stamp, they were a real bargain. | | | The Provisional Postal Stationery of Estonia are covers and cards that were issued 1991-1993 due to a stamp shortage. | | | Catalogue of USSR Illustrated Postal Stationery Covers with Estonian Topics. |
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http://www.algonet.se/~bert/estica
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| | Worcester, Massachusetts Postal History - An Overview |
| | You can Email me, Bob Track, if you would like to leave a message. | | | Disk space and other Internet limitations did not allow it. | | | Counter software and support provided by the Good Folks at Net Digits. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2088
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| | Sweden Postal History |
| | Ohlsson and Torkelstam, Ostergotland Postal History, Cancellations, Local Posts, and Railway Stamps - Post och Jarnvagar i Ostergotland, 1985; (in Swedish). | | | Wagerman, Trelleborg-Sassnitz 1897-1945 [Train Ferry service between Sweden and Germany that linked northern Scandinavia to Europe], 1990; (in Swedish with English summary). | | | Facit, Facit Stamp Card Catalog 1985, 1985 ; (in Swedish with English text). |
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