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HA FALLECIDO EL ACADÉMICO CORRESPONDIENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DR. LEO JOHN HARRIS.

Nos han informado del fallecimiento del Académico Correspondiente de Estados Unidos Don JOHN LEO HARRIS, el pasado 25 de enero de 2017 en St. Paul, Minnesota. Recordamos brevemente su historial filatélico: John Leo Harris (St Paul, Minnesota). Abogado de profesión y con más de 70 años dentro de la afición, fue galardonado en el año […]

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The Quipu of the Incas: its place in the story of communications

  The study of postal history has, through time, been defined in a number of different ways. Most of us consider postal history to be the study of how a paper with writing on it was carried in some sort of organized fashion from place to place. But more broadly, and for the purpose of […]

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Libranzas in Colonial Latin America

  This article concerns use of the Latin American postal system during the Spanish colonial era to support economic development. Our interest is primarily in the “libranza”, a simple financial instrument used to transfer money, as well as various alternative means to achieve the same purpose. A “giro” or postal money order is the currently used form of the […]

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