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Cuban
Postal Museum
Museums and Art Galleries - City of Havana Regions of Cuba - Travel Guide This interesting museum, specializing in philately and the history of the postal service, exhibits old writing instruments and valuable documents from the Cuban postal system, including one of special importance, the libro de cuentas (ledger) used by Cuba's first director of the mail in the year 1765. Stamp collectors will be thrilled to see what is considered to be the world's first postage stamp, the famous one-penny black, which came into circulation on May 6, 1840, in England. Among the interesting exhibits on display is the "postal rocket," which gave rise to an issue of stamps for "rocket mail." On October 15, 1936, a group of enthusiastic stamp lovers launched a solid-propellant rocket containing a bundle of correspondence. While the experiment had no practical consequences, it did go down in history as the first attempt to use rocket propulsion to speed up mail delivery. The Postal Museum also has a rich collection of stamps from the world over and a specialized room devoted to Cuban stamps, and it features a shop where visitors may buy stamps, albums and other collectors' accessories. Collections:
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Updated August
20, 2000
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