January 5, 2010 "Gengyin year" across the country started to issue stamps. China Post's third round of the Lunar New Year Stamp - "Gengyin year" special stamp a set of a face value of 1.20 yuan, Booklet 1, price of 12 yuan. "Tiger vote" by the sought-members of the public have come to post office stamp the date of postmark.
Yesterday was the Year of the Tiger stamps - "Gengyin year" special stamps issuing the first day of Beijing near the Post Office a few post offices in the Hu Fangqiao also enabled the "Hu Fangqiao (Pro)" character postal datestamps, many fans a post Big long to purchase stamps, stamp the provisional postmark. At the same time, the city's major post offices have also appeared in Post Zodiac Tiger fans queued to buy tickets picture.
Zuozao more than 8, despite the cold weather, is located in West Luomashi Hu Fangqiao intersection outside the post office has more than 200 fans waiting in a queue to wait for the mail "Tiger tickets," opened the door, just over an hour, the council prepared more than 500 pieces of "Tiger vote" that sold out first day covers. Buy a postal stamp affixed Hu Fangqiao fans have been lining up another temporary postmarks.
Tiger the world's first set of stamps
In 1871, Afghanistan has more than ten years after start-up of postal services issued a first set of stamps in its history. A total of three stamps, pattern the same denominations as 1SH (Shashi), 1SA (race Nar) and 1AB (Abbas), all printed with a black slate. Stamp image center due to tiger pattern, in the international philatelic was known as "Afghan Tiger Head" stamps. This is also the world's first set of Tiger stamps.
Afghanistan, the first set of stamps for the pattern selection Steller's of great political significance. 1871, Afghanistan is in a Xierali Khan rule, which means Tiger Hill, the natural and tiger-head stamp issue also symbolizes Xierali Khan, the absolute domination of Afghanistan. This set of stamps map sheet rather special, showing the foreign within the rounded, and with diamond-shaped display. In addition to the main map stamps round tiger, the surrounding circle of the Arab alphabet spelling Pashto and Persian, including the currency name, number and face value of the Muslim calendar year. Poor because early printing technology and paper rough, resulting in blurred images, almost hard to identification. It is worth mentioning that the "Afghan Tiger Head" stamp is not stamped when used in the early post datestamps, but send stamps, when torn off a corner to show their ticket sales, so we now see that some missing corner "new ticket "is in fact on the envelope from the old foam wash down. In Afghanistan from 1871 to 1878 starting Steller's stamps were issued in order to Steller's 105 kinds of stamps for the pattern, but the style, a different brush color and so on.
Until 1880, Xiereli Khan, the British overturned, Abdul Rahman began to come to power, it abolished the stamp image of the tiger. "Afghan Tiger Head" stamps for nearly 140 years ago, due to old age, "Afghan Tiger Head" stamps are now relatively scarce, and the proliferation of fake tickets, leaving many collectors discouraged. However, with other countries, the classical stamps issued over the same period compared to the classical stamps of Afghanistan belongs to mid-range price level. According to "2008 Scott World Stamp Catalog," as set out in the first issue of 1871, "Afghan tiger's head" The new ticket full price 1300 U.S. dollars, the old ticket full price 107.5 U.S. dollars
At present, the domestic are philatelists will be "Afghan Tiger Head" stamps summed up as the head of the Tiger stamps, I do not agree. Lunar New Year stamps are issued by the postal sector in order to zodiac sign of the Zodiac, or text-based map of the Lunar New Year Lunar New Year stamps. According to this definition, "Afghan Tiger Head" stamps Although tiger-based map, but its release time, content and issuance of stamps do not have the purpose of the elements, it is not them as stamps.