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The Tuvalu Philatelic Bureau was established on 1 January 1976, which was the day the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was dissolved and Tuvalu established as a separate British dependency. The first stamp issue was a set of provisional overprinted definitive stamps [ 3 ] and a commemorative set of three stamps. [ 4 ]
A 1871 stamp of Fiji (left) with a forgery (right) This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Fiji. Fiji is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It was a former British colony.
This is a list of philatelic bureaus across the world. In philately , a philatelic bureau is the part of a national postal administration that sells philatelic items to stamp collectors , tourists and stamp dealers .
Pages in category "Philately of Fiji" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Postage stamps and postal history of Fiji; R. Revenue stamps of Fiji
Post Fiji is the national post office of Fiji.The group was founded in 1871 by the Cakobau Postal Act. [1]The full range of postal, courier and related services are provided by Post Fiji Pte Limited, a state-owned enterprise and runs 58 post offices plus 100 postal agencies. the modern organisation was set up under the Public Enterprise Act controlled by the 2015 Companies Act.
Revenue stamps of Fiji were first issued in 1871 or 1872, when the Fiji islands were an independent kingdom. The first revenue stamps consisted of postage stamps overprinted with the letter D. [1] [2] After Fiji became a British crown colony in 1874, postage stamps and dual-purpose postage and revenue stamps began to be
A genuine 1871 1d CR stamp of Fiji on the left with a forgery attributed to Philip Spiro on the right. [1] A sheet of Spiro forgeries of the Japanese 1872-75 Cherry Blossom stamps; includes forged cancels.
Stamp of Fiji overprinted 'New Hebrides Condominium', 1908 The first British issues, in 1908 and 1910, were produced by overprinting stamps of Fiji with "NEW HEBRIDES / CONDOMINIUM". These were followed by a joint issue with the French authorities, inscribed "NEW HEBRIDES" over a design including the coats of arms of both France and Britain and ...