Asia's first adhesive stamp, the “Scinde Dawk,” was introduced by a man named Sir Bartle Frere, who was an administrator for the British East India Company. Stamps keep countries running Stamp collectors help
5. THE PETRO-STATE, ITS POSTAGE STAMPS, AND POLITICAL ICONOGRAPHY Having set the political agenda of creating "the finest city in the Middle East and the happiest State," the government of Kuwait had linked its efforts of state formation and nation-building with the urban transformation of ...
Many of the handstamps were locally made and varied from town to town, some incorporating wording. A further volume contained entires with handstuck “2” marks in black, the majority indicative of the fact that the sender had not pre-paid the postage and 2d was to be collected by the ...
5. THE PETRO-STATE, ITS POSTAGE STAMPS, AND POLITICAL ICONOGRAPHYHaving set the political agenda of creating “the finest city in the Middle East and the happiest State,” the government of Kuwait had linked its efforts of state formation and nation-building with the urban transformation of ...