Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962.

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Lady McLeod stamps

The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847.

First Trinidad stamps

The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851.

Tobago stamps

Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps of Tobago were not issued until 1879.^[1] Tobago again used stamps of Trinidad from 1896.^[2]

Trinidad and Tobago issues

Stamps inscribed "Trinidad & Tobago" were first issued in 1913 after the integration of the postal administrations of Trinidad and Tobago.^[3]

Independence

An 1896 Trinidad stamp.

A 1914 five shilling stamp of Trinidad & Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago issued stamps as an independence state on 31 August 1962.

References

^ Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue: Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. 110th edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2008, pp.588-594. ISBN 0-85259-653-7
^ "Tobago | Stamps and postal history | StampWorldHistory". Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 12 August 2018.^{[title missing]}
^ "Trinidad & Tobago | Stamps and postal history | StampWorldHistory". Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 12 August 2018.^{[title missing]}

External links

The Trinidad and Tobago Philatelic Page

Aleong, Joe Chin and Edward B. Proud. The Postal History of Trinidad & Tobago. Heathfield: Proud-Bailey Co., 1997, 520 pages, ISBN 1872465242
Ford, Peter C., Charles Freeland and Edward Barrow. Tobago: The Philatelic Story of a Small Island. Javea, Alicante: British West Indies Study Circle, 2014, 150 pages, ISBN 9781907481079
Marriott, John B, Michael Medlicott and Reuben A. Ramkissoon. Trinidad: A Philatelic History to 1913. Alicante: British West Indies Study Circle in conjunction with the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group, 2010, 359 pages, ISBN 9781095065358
Wike, R.G. Airmails of Trinidad and Tobago. Congleton: British West Indies Study Circle, 1999, 214 pages, ISBN 0950653594

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