At the time the first Mexican postage stamps were issued, there were approximately 50 of these postal districts. Classical Mexico stamps were overprinted with the name of the postal district in which the post office was located. This has enabled modern philatelists to be able to reconstruct the plates from mint or used condition single stamps. With frequent re-cutting of the plate positions and their variable alignment, this resulted in the impressions on the plate being slightly different from each other. That is, the plates were laid down by hand. The plates for the first stamps of Mexico were made in the same manner as those of the contemporary postage stamp issues of the United States. ![]() ![]() The classical stamps of Mexico are very popular with philatelists around the World.
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