Subject:
A comprehensive treatment of the first postal issues of Spanish Antilles (1855-1865), meant to be used in the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico,but also initially valid as postage in the Philippine Islands. It covers the production, paper and printing varieties, surcharges applied for the internal mail service of the city of Havana, postal counterfeits, and a large diversity of uses on domestic and foreign destinations. The foreign uses during the Spanish punitive military expedition to Veracruz and the Spanish military occupation of the Dominican Republic are also discussed in depth, as well as a few exceptional uses abroad.