ISSUE 162 - June 7, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel's
U.S. Postal Service in 1857
by Mannel Hahn
(From Mekeel's Weekly, September 13, 1937, with images added)
The year 1857 was an important one philatelically. By that year the use of postage stamps had become well established. It had been required in a previous year, but it took about twelve months to get it in actual practice. In 1857, too, postage stamps were introduced in perforated form, thereby reducing the annoyance of . . .
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