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Postage stamps and postal history of Peru

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A commemorative stamp from 1871, one of the first in the world

Peru declared independence from Spain in 1821 and decisively defeated colonial forces at the Battle of Ayacucho in 1824. It began using stamps in 1857 that initially were provided by the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Peru's own early stamps were printed and cut in Lima from paper strips on a French-made device (Lecle

For a catalogue used by collectors to classify early Peruvian (imperforate) stamps, see Lamy (and Rinck)."' [1]

References

  1. ^ Stamps of the World Volume 3. Stanley Gibbons. 2004. p. 807.


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