This is a survey of the
postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
s and
postal history of
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
.
Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America. It is a continental mainland with numerous islands located off its coastline in the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
. The republic is a former
Spanish colony
The Spanish Empire ( es, link=no, Imperio español), also known as the Hispanic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Hispánica) or the Catholic Monarchy ( es, link=no, Monarquía Católica) was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its prede ...
, that won its independence in 1821.
First stamps
The first stamps of the Venezuela were issued on 1 January 1859.
[
Venezuela supported its territorial claim in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 by printing an 1896 postage stamp with a map showing Guyana up to the east bank of the ]Essequibo River
The Essequibo River ( Spanish: ''Río Esequibo'' originally called by Alonso de Ojeda ''Río Dulce'') is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil–Guyana b ...
as "Guayana Venezolana". Guyana years later responded with a series of overprints “ESSEQUIBO IS OURS”.[Russell W. Stern]
The Politics of Printing in Stamp Design and Production
, "NSW Philatelist", 15 October 2008
British stamps
British stamps were used at La Guaira
La Guaira () is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port. It was founded in 1577 as an outlet for Caracas, to the southeast. The town and the port were badly damaged during ...
between 1865 and 1880 which may be identified by the cancel C60. British stamps used at Ciudad Bolivar
Ciudad () is the Spanish word for City
Ciudad may also refer to:
*La Ciudad (archaeological site), Hohokam ruins in Phoenix, Arizona
*La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico
*''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970
*La Ciudad ''The City'' ...
(1868-80) had the cancel D22.[ Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. ''The Stamp Atlas''. London: Macdonald, 1986, p.166. ]
See also
* List of people on stamps of Venezuela
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
References
Further reading
Monographs
* Blanco Quintanilla, Aurelio. ''Venezuela: Catalogo Especializado de Estampillas''. 2nd Edition. Caracas: The Author, 1992 487p.
* Brunel, Georges. ''Les Emissions Postales du Venezuela''. Paris: Editions philateliques, 1931 62p.
* Dib Espejo, Pedro José. ''Estudios y comentarios sobre filatelia venezolana y otros temas universales''. Caracas: Tip. Vargas, 1971 127p.
* Hall, Thomas W. and L.W. Fulcher. ''The Postage Stamps of Venezuela''. Plymouth: Published for the authors by William Brendon & Son, Ltd, The Mayflower Press, 1924 170p.
* Valera, Juan Jose. ''Catalogo Especializado de las Estampillas de Venezuela''. Caracas: Club Filatelico de Caracas, 1985 536p.
* Vélez-Salas, Francisco. ''Orígenes Postales de Venezuela''. Caracas: Impr. Nacional, 1949 451p.
* Wickersham, Cornelius W. ''The Early Stamps of Venezuela''. New York: Collectors' Club, 1958 156p.
Article
* "The Stamps of Venezuela: Escuelas 1871-79" by L.W. Fulcher in ''Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal'', April 1925.
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External links
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