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A stamp of Italy overprinted "Tripoli di Barberia" for use in Italian post office in Tripoli, 1909. An Italian post office was opened in Tripoli in 1869. in 1909 stamps were issued for use in the Tripoli post office. A 1931 airmail stamp of Tripolitania, depicting an Arab horseman pointing to an airplane passing overhead, cancelled in 1937
Postage stamps of Italian Libya were stamps issued by the Kingdom of Italy for use in Italian Libya, between 1912 and 1943. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The area now comprising Libya was originally a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire which was ceded to Italy in 1912 [ 3 ] and became an Italian colony with its own stamps.
This is a list of entities that have issued postage stamps at some point since stamps were introduced in 1840. The list includes any kind of governmental entity or officially approved organisation that has issued distinctive types of stamp for postal purposes. These include post offices in foreign countries and postal services organised by ...
The first stamps with a portrait of Victor Emanuel III appeared in July 1901. The first series of commemorative stamps was issued in April 1910 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Expedition of the Thousand. The world's first airmail stamps were issued in 1917 [4] when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps. [5]
A British stamp with a Middle East Forces overprint valid for use in occupied Libya. British stamps overprinted M.E.F. (Middle East Forces) were used from 1943 to 1948 after the area was captured by the British during World War II. From 1 July 1948 stamps overprinted B.M.A. TRIPOLITANIA were used.
Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State; Postage stamps and postal history of Cyrenaica; Postage stamps and postal history of Dalmatia; Postage stamps and postal history of Eritrea; Postage stamps and postal history of Fiume; Postage stamps and postal history of Italy; Postage stamps and postal history of Libya
Libyan passport stamps on a 1998 visa. Libya first issued revenue stamps when it was an Italian colony in 1913 and continues to do so to this day. The provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan as well as the municipality of Tripoli also had separate revenue issues until the 1950s and 1960s.
Pre-stamp 1628 lettersheet opened up showing folds, address and seal, with letter being written on the obverse. Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems.