First Issues - 1858 to 1860

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Colombia (cont.)

Republic of Colombia 1886 SG120 Sc129	Commemorative 1910 SG345 Sc331 Centenary of Independence	Airmail [1919] Commemorative 1959 SG998 Sc-C347	Charity 1935 SG477 Sc-RA1 Red Cross	Official 1937 SG-O496 Sc-O1

← The first airmail is a remarkably pricey (£2k5/£1k5) 1919 overprint for the first experimental flight, commemorated in 1959. Thereafter, airmail services were outsourced to various private companies until 1932. On charities, Scott makes the usual distinction between Sc-RA (postal tax) and Sc-B charity issues.

World's First Acknowledgement of Receipt stamp 1893 SG-AR169 Sc-H1	World's First scalene triangle stamp 1869 SG58 Sc59

Colombia invented the Acknowledgement of Receipt stamp. Mackay's Guinness explores stamp shapes at length and notes (p.112) that Colombia produced the smallest triangular stamp in 1865 (SG32, Sc36, not shown), the first (possibly the only) scalene triangle in 1869 and the first upright oval, a 1881 Registration stamp, SG-R105, SC-F7 (not shown).

There were numerous issues from Colombian states: Antioquia (1868), Bolivar (1863), Boyacá (1899), Cauca (1902), Cundinamarca (1870), Magdalena (described by Gibbons as unofficial, regarded by Scott as receipt labels rather than stamps), Panama (1878, listed by Scott under Panama), Santander (1884) and Tolima (1870). These will be shown in later displays.

Sierra Leone

The first issue was on 21st September 1859. The first sensibly-priced (FSP) stamp is shown: although thirty-six years later, the design had not changed. Sierra Leone became independent in 1963.

[21st September 1859] 1896 SG37 Sc421	Commemorative 1933 SG168 Sc153 Centenary of the abolition of slavery and of the death of William Wilberforce	Airmail 1963 SG263 Sc-C1 7d on 1½d blue surch. SG212 Sc197	First issue after independence 1963 SG223 Sc208

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