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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Cuba. Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital.
José Luis Guerra Agular, director of the Postal Museum (1991) Antonio Guerrero, Cuban imprisoned in the United States (2005) Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolution leader (1968) Nicolás Guillén, poet (2002) Antonio Guiteras y Holmes, politician (1951) Juan Guiteras, Cuban physician and pathologist (1952)
1899 Cuban provisional stamp printed in the town of Puerto Príncipe. Note that cents is misspelled eents. Linn's World Stamp Almanac [1] defines a provisional stamp as "a postage stamp issued for temporary use to meet postal demands until new or regular stocks of stamps can be obtained."
This is an online exhibit and joint venture with the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum that explores Cuba's postal history from 1830-1939. [10] The project includes a second virtual exhibit titled "Cuba's Commercial Aviation History", which documents the history of commercial aviation between Cuba and the United States. [11]
This is a partial timeline of significant events in postal history, ... 1898 - First stamps of Cuba under American military occupation; 1898 ...
An imprinted stamp on an 1898 Cuba postal card. An overprinted surcharged imprinted stamp on a Chinese zodiac "Year of the ox" postal card, 1997. In philately, an imprinted stamp is a stamp printed onto a piece of postal stationery such as a stamped envelope, postal card, letter sheet, letter card, aerogram or wrapper. [1]
Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.
The postal history of Puerto Rico began around 1518, at least for official mail, when Spain adopted general postal regulations; although the first documentation of Spanish postal regulations specific to the Caribbean was 1794. [1] The first postage stamps were issued 169 years ago for Puerto Rico and Cuba in 1856.