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Delivering Cuba Through the Mail - Cuba's Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes (Paperback)
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Delivering Cuba Through the Mail - Cuba's Presence in Non-Cuban Postage Stamps and Envelopes (Paperback)
Series: Inspired by Cuba
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On May 1st, 1840, the United Kingdom issued the first postage
stamps in the world: the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue. Other
countries soon followed: United States (1847), France and Belgium
(1849), Spain, Switzerland, Austria and Prussia (1850), and many
more in the ensuing years. In Cuba, then a colony of Spain, the
first stamp was used in 1855 and it depicted the image of Queen
Isabella II, the sovereign of the Spanish Empire at the time. In
1899, after Cuba had become separated from Spain and was under US
occupation, the first set of Cuban stamps (printed in the US)
included an image of Christopher Columbus, who arrived on the
island in 1492; a group of Cuban royal palm trees; the statue of an
Indian woman representing the island; a rural scene featuring a
field plowed by oxen; and a steamship, highlighting Cuba's lifeline
to the rest of the world. Cuba was beginning to tell its own story
on stamps. And that has been the practice ever since. As a result,
finding Cuba-related images in Cuban postage stamps is to be
expected and comes as no surprise to anyone. Much less known and
studied is the fact that, from time to time, Cuba somehow shows up
in foreign postage stamps as well as in so-called "cinderellas"
(resembling stamps, but not issued for postal purposes). It also
appears in the design of souvenir sheets outside of the stamps
themselves and in the cachets printed on commemorative envelopes
and postcards. This is a fascinating story in itself and the one
told in this book for the first time.
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