Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.groseducationalmedia.ca Puerto Rico Puerto Rico on Stamps Five definitive issues depicting Alfonso XII were issued between 1877 and 1886. This value was issued in 1884. Two definitive designs depicting Alfonso XIII were issued between 1890 and 1898. Spain issued the first stamps for use in Cuba in 1873 when stamps of Cuba were overprinted. The first actual Puerto Rican issues bearing the image of King Alfonso XII were issued in 1877. In 1890 the first definitives bearing the image of Alfonso XIII were issued. In 1898 two imperforate issues were released by the United States postal administration. In 1899 and 1900 American stamps with the diagonal overprint Puerto Rico were released. Subsequently the stamps of Puerto Rico were replaced by those of the United States. American definitives were overprinted for use in Puerto Rico in 1899-1900. On November 25, 1937 the United States issued a stamp depicting La Fortaleza in San Juan as one of its Territorial Issues. Some changes can be noted in the scene between 1937 and 2006. One of the sentry boxes in Morro Castle in San Juan is featured on the United States stamp issued on September 12, 1971 commemorating the 450th anniversary of the city of San Juan. Bibliography "Puerto Rico." Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. 1997. "United States." Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. 1997. Backward   Virtual Stamp Collection Index Forward © Grose Educational Media, 2006-2018