October 6 -12, 2019
150 Years of Postcards
Did you Know?
* A postcard is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
* Deltiology is the study and collecting of postcards.
*The first country-issued postcard was in 1869 by the Austrian post.
* In 2002, an 1840 postcard bearing a penny black stamp, the writer Theodore Hook sent to himself, sold for a record £ 31,750.
- Information courtesy of Wikipedia.
The front of this postcard features Trinidad and Tobago's national flower, birds and instrument.
This postcard is from Nalini in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago stamp 2005
Medicinal Plants
Local Herbal Medicine
Wonder of The World, 3.00
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Trinidad and Tobago stamp 2005
Medicinal Plants
Local Herbal Medicine
Worm Grass, 75 C
