The first American missionaries arrived in Hawaii around 1820. They sent letters to the United States. The Hawaiian government created its first post office in 1849, and printed its first stamps two years later.... https://t.co/t7Ac5sZC9I
On 9 September 1918 the Latvian postal authorities give an order for the printing of 3.000.000 stamps. The value must be 5 kapeiki. In total 11.956 sheets of 228 stamps were printed: 2.725.968 postage stamps.... https://t.co/WgBBz32l7q
In the UK, specially-designed stamps honor cultural fixations and key anniversaries. It’s comes as no surprise that many Brits were bothered by the Royal Mail's decision not to issue a... https://t.co/Ghql92D3Y1
Getting stamps to stick hasn't always been a simple task. Most stamps made after 1840 came with an adhesive gum on the back. But the gum—made from various plant products such as cornstarch,... https://t.co/65CJU2KJuA
During the post-World War I era, Germany was wracked by one of the most famous and spectacular bouts of inflation in history. Under the strain of huge war reparations demanded by the... https://t.co/ta54G0tO38
The Graf Zeppelin was Dr. Hugo Eckner's crowning achievement in the concept of the zeppelin. Even though the later Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin II would be technologically superior to... https://t.co/Y92fn9QEME
Postal history of China is very fascinating as much as intricate if one considers the gradual decay of imperial China, the years of civil wars, the Japanese Occupation in the 1930s and World War... https://t.co/ATx4cK9vAg
During his lunch break on May 14, 1918, William T. Robey, a bank teller at Hibbs and Company in Washington D.C., traveled, as he often did, to the post office on New York Avenue. There, he... https://t.co/edauC9Zp98