Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Commemorative stamp

Index Commemorative stamp

A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object. [1]

13 relations: Airmail stamp, Columbian Issue, Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps, Definitive stamp, First day of issue, Jubilee Issue, Postage stamp, Postal stationery, Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps, Stamp collecting, Stamped envelope, Territories of the United States on stamps, World's Columbian Exposition.

Airmail stamp

An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Airmail stamp · See more »

Columbian Issue

The Columbian Issue, often known as simply the Columbians, is a set of 16 postage stamps issued by the United States to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago during 1893.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Columbian Issue · See more »

Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps

The Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps concerns both the actual stamps and covers used during the American Civil War, and the later postage celebrations.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps · See more »

Definitive stamp

A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period of time and designed to serve the everyday postal needs of the country.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Definitive stamp · See more »

First day of issue

A first day of issue cover or first day cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for useBennett, Russell and Watson, James; Philatelic Terms Illustrated, Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978) within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and First day of issue · See more »

Jubilee Issue

The postage stamps of the United Kingdom issued in 1887 are known as the "Jubilee" issue because they were issued during the year of the Golden Jubilee of the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Jubilee Issue · See more »

Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Postage stamp · See more »

Postal stationery

A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related service has been prepaid.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Postal stationery · See more »

Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps

The Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps (S.S.S.S.) was a short-lived and ill-fated attempt by philatelists before 1900 to suppress the issue of illegal stamps designed mainly for sale to collectors.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps · See more »

Stamp collecting

Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Stamp collecting · See more »

Stamped envelope

A stamped envelope or postal stationery envelope (PSE) is an envelope with a printed or embossed indicium indicating the prepayment of postage.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Stamped envelope · See more »

Territories of the United States on stamps

Territories of the United States on stamps discusses commemorative postal issues devoted to lands that have been ceded to the nation or purchased by treaty in conjunction with both war and peace.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and Territories of the United States on stamps · See more »

World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

New!!: Commemorative stamp and World's Columbian Exposition · See more »

Redirects here:

Commemorative issue, Commemorative postage stamp, Commemorative postage stamps, Commemorative stamps.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_stamp

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »