Postage stamps and postal history of Paraguay
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Paraguay gained independence from Spain in 1811.
Pre-stamp era[edit]
Paraguay operated an internal postal service from 1769 to 1811. Mail travelled from Buenos Aires via Santa Fe and Corrientes to Candelaria and Asuncion.[1]
First stamps[edit]
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The republic of Paraguay issued its first stamps (1, 2, and 3 Reales) on 1 August 1870,[2] featuring a standing lion raising a republican hat, lithographed by R. Lange (Buenos Aires).[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Stamp Atlas. sandafayre.com
- ^ Michel Südamerika 1984/85 catalog, page 575.
- ^ Stamps of the World Volume 3. Stanley Gibbons. 2004. p. 787.