Really Small Stamps

I have always wondered about this little guy...

Celebrating Father Bento in his work in curing leprosy.

Here are my bantams
Some of my South African
and my Italian

Any Info on the Italian ones would be most welcome



Ray

Don't know much about the Italian ones but I have a page of them in one of my albums. They are for parcel post and started around World War I. They were issued in se-tenant pairs (same colour, different design) and so in each case, you have half the pair. I think the idea was that the sender would keep one as a receipt or something - and the other would be stuck to the parcel.

Hopefully someone here knows a bit more than me!

EDIT - just seen the previous page, where more of these are pictured and they are identified as parcel stamps.

The "smallest" women on stamps



Madison Dolley (1768-1849) was the wife of president of USA James Madison.

It is one of the smallest stamps in the world, measuring only around 18 x 20 mm from perforation to perforation.

Some more "small women" (18 x 25 mm)

Natividad Almeda-Lopez (1892-1977) was the first woman to actively practice law as a profession and subsequently became the first woman Justice in the Philippines.
Engracia Cruz-Reyes (1892-1975) was a Filipino chef and entrepreneur. She was an active promoter of Filipino cuisine, especially through the restaurant chain she founded.
Olivia Salamanca (1889-1913) was the second woman in the Philippines to earn a medical degree.