BEng(Hons), PGDip(UK), LCGI, DTLLS, Member of Revenue Society UK, Member of philatelic Society SL More Information: [email protected] The first stamp for Ceylon was issued on 1 April 1857. The ...

The collection of stamps as a hobby commenced with the issue of the “Penny Black” in Britain in the mid nineteenth century and rapidly expanded into the colonies of the British Empire and to the other ...

Dulshan Ellawela has recently published his MPhil research — ‘Philatelic study during the British colonial period in Ceylon’ with the front page featuring an elegant design. Ellawala is a stamp ...

FISCAL AND TELEGRAPH STAMPS OF CEYLON FROM NOTES BY THE LATE CSF CROFTON ARRANGED AND PARTLY WRITTEN BY B GORDON JONES ...

After the successful first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, earning the title of ‘First Cosmonaut’, he visited Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) eight months later on December 7, 1961. The ...