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The first stamps of Mongolia, issued in 1924 A modern postage stamp of Mongolia, featuring Padmasambhava, a founding figure in Tibetan Buddhism. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Mongolia. Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia.
The modern postal system of Mongolia started with the establishment of a state committee for post and telegraph by the Mongolian People's Republic.From 1935 the postal system had a succession of names commencing as the 'City Post Committee', including 'Central Post', 'Telegraph, Post and Communication Office', until 2002 when finally renamed Mongol Post.
Mongol rider on the Yam (Postal) System. Diez Albums, SBB-PK, Diez A fol. 71, p. 28, no. 1. [1]Yam (Mongolian: Өртөө, romanized: Örtöö, lit. 'checkpoint') was a postal system or supply point route messenger system extensively used and expanded by Ögedei Khan and also used by subsequent great khans and khans.
The first series depicted the Buddhist wheel of life with Mongolian writing and numerals only. Beginning in 1927, Tannu Tuva issued a series of color stamps with local scenes or a map of the country. These stamps were issued in several shapes, including rectangles, triangles and diamonds, and bore text in Mongolian and the words "TOUVA" and ...
Ulaanbaatar has several museums dedicated to Mongolian history and culture. The Mongolian Natural History Museum features many dinosaur fossils and meteorites found in Mongolia. [76] [77] The National Museum of Mongolia includes exhibits from prehistoric times through the Mongol Empire to the present.
Meiso Mizuhara (水原 明窗, Mizuhara Meisō, 1924 [2] – November 1993) was a Japanese philatelist who was known for his award-winning collections of the stamps and postal history of the countries of Asia and his books on those subjects. His collection of Chinese stamps and postal history was exceeded in importance only by that of Sir ...
Blekhman's works were related to postal history and postage stamps of Tuva, Mongolia, Russia and Soviet Union as well as airmail. [1] He participated in prestigious national and international philatelic exhibitions and won a number of high-caliber awards.
The history of the British post office (Harvard University Press, 1912) online. John, Richard R. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) excerpt; Le Roux, Muriel, et al. eds. A Concise History of the French Post Office: From Its Origins to the Present Time (2018) Lowe, Robson (1951).