Postage stamps

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Issued on 16 October 1971 in a series 'National Industry'.                             (Argentina)

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Issued on 8 August 1990                                      (Tanzania)

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Issued on 17 October 1986    Paper Industry                                (Norway)



Stamps in more detail

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Issued on 14 August 1955 to mark the 8th anniversary of independence        Karnaphuli Paper Mill        (Pakistan)

 

Same stamp, issued on same day but with values transposed




Issued on 23 March 1957, the same image but with a different border



Issued on 6 Feb 1962 to celebrate the first jet flight Karachi - Dacca

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Issued on 7 December 1964 in a series 'Industrial Plants'         Paper factory in Boukovitza                (Bulgaria)

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Issued on 14 August 1957 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Independence                       (Pakistan)

Karnaphuli paper mill bottom left of stamp

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Issued on 6 September 1967 to commemorate 300 years of the Finnish Papermaking Industry              (Finland)

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Issued on 10 April 1990

Queen's Awards to Industry Stamps
These Royal Mail stamps were affixed to specially designed envelopes and postmarked on the first day that the stamps were issued.

Rush Mills (paper for Penny Black), Postmarked at Northampton

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Issued on 1 April 1952 in a series 'Canada's Natural Resources'



Issued on 7 June 1956    Paper Industry      (Canada)



Issued on 4 December 1956, overprinted with a 'G'



In 1950, the Post Office of Canada and the Government of Canada ceased overprinting "Official Stamps" with O.H.M.S. and began overprinting with the single letter "G".  The G stands for government or gouvernement. Having a bilingual symbol was the major motivation for this decision.

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Issued on 14 May 2009 for the 275th anniversary of Räpina Paper Mill                             (Estonia)

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Issued on 5 March 1974  Sulphite Pulp Process - Papermaking                            (Sweden)





Carl Daniel Ekman was a Swedish civil engineer and inventor. He invented the sulphite process, a cheap way of producing paper from wood pulp. Thanks to his efforts, paper could now be produced on a massive scale.

A similar sulphite process had been invented by Benjamin Chew Tilghman in 1867 in Philadelphia, but he was unable to put it into commercial production.

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Issued on 2 April 2001        Verla Groundwood and Board Mill Museum                (Finland)

Four stamps on mini-sheet to make full image



First Day Cover

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Issued on 18 August 2005 to celebrate 'Four Great Inventions of Ancient China'     (Hong Kong)

The first stamp shown is titled 'Papermaking' and shows Ts'ai Lun



This next stamp leads us neatly into the stamps I have posted in the Movable Type thread and is titled 'Printing' and shows Bi Sheng

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Issued on 12 October 1999 in a mini-sheet  'Science and Technology in Ancient China'    (Liberia)

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Issued on 20 July 1999  -  Movable type used in China 1050                (Togo)