2004, April 19. Postpex 2004 Stamp Exhibition
Litho Offset.
Amstar Company, Inc., Perf. 14.
Souvenir Sheets of One
Souvenir Sheets of One
(8,000)
22p
Postpex 2004 Overprint on First Philippine Stamps Issue
Designer: David Dujunco
Design Coordinator: Dr. Ngo Tiong
Tak
Design: Overprint in red and black on souvenir sheets issued
earlier featuring the four First
Philippine stamps issued in 1854, with the bottom margin showing
the unissued 10c black and the 1 r
corros" error stamps.
First Day Covers: Manila
POSTPEX 2004 Stamp Exhibition
The Philippines was one of the first countries
in Asia to issue postage stamps (1854), 14 years after the first
postage stamps were issued in England in 1840.
The Philippine Postal Corporation, in
cooperation with the APO Philatelic Society and the Philatelic
Society of the Philippines (PSP), is putting up a 150-frame stamp
exhibit to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first Philippine
postage stamps, POSTPEX 2004.
The exhibit puts on display some of the best
collections of Filipino and foreign collectors living here and
abroad. Some members of the International Philippine Philatelic
Society are participating and supporting this exhibit, too.
Gigantic and magnificent by local standards,
this 150-frame exhibit is the biggest organized by Philpost to date.
Everything is included, from some of the rarest items from the first
issue of the Spanish regime, through the U.S. Administration,
Aguinaldo Revolutionary Government, Japanese Occupation to the
Republic period. Philippine postal cards, flight covers, documentary
stamped papers, revenues, and others are also presented. World class
exhibits of foreign stamps are also on display, plus topical
collections and exhibits of the Philpost Philatelic Library.