- Postage stamps of Tibet
Tibet began issuing postage stamps in the beginning of the XXth century. The first stamps were issued inLhasa in 1912, other series of stamps were issue in 1914, 1933, up to end of the 50’s.Tibet stamps had a figure of a
snowlion , the nationalemblem of Tibet , they were marked inTibetan characters meaning "Tibet Government " and in English by "Tibet ". [ [http://www.tibet.com/status/kazi.html A brief account of Mr. Sonam T. Kazi's experience in Tibet before the Chinese Invasion] ]References
External links
[http://www.tibet.com/Stamps/index.html Stamps of Independent Tibet]
Books
*Holmes, Henry Robert, The Postage Stamps of Tibet, 1941
*Bibbins, Frealon, Tibet, First Series, 1912, plating notebook, 1992
*Haverbeck, Harrison D.S., The Postage stamps and postal history of Tibet, 1952, 1958
*Hellrigl, Wolfgang C. The Postal markings of Tibet, 1996
*Hellrigl, Wolfgang C. Tibet: a philatelic and numismatic bibliography: a critical bibliography containing over 400 titles of Tibetan philately, numismatics and postal and monetary histories. [Part I - Philatelic bibliography] , 1981
*Singer, Armond E., Tibet 1809-1975, 1995
*Waterfall, Arnold C., The Postal history of Tibet, 1981, 1965
*Virk, D.S. Sikkim-Tibet, 1903-1908, 1989
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