COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA.

50th anniversary of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain.
Simplified map of the American continent.
Airmail. First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 18.10.1962.
Face value: 50 cents of Colombian peso.
Design: Imre Mosdóssy (1904-1995).
Printed by Thomas de la Rue de Colombia, Bogotá.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 25 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- Leo Temprano No. 1084.
- Michel No. 1038.
- Scott No. C445.
- StampWorld No. 1020.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1135.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 427.

The Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (Unión Postal de las Américas y España, UPAE), which in 1990 was expanded and renamed Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal, UPAEP), is an association of the postal authorities of 26 countries. It was founded in 1911 as Unión de Correos Sudamericanos (Union of South American Posts) at the initiative of Francisco García y Santos, General Director of the Uruguay Post Office; between 1921 and 1931 it was called Unión Postal Panamericana (Pan-American Postal Union). It is part of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) as a restricted union. It is based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Its first antecedent was the Unión Grancolombiana, created in 1838 and made up of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.