Astro stamps
pre-1940
1940–49
1950–56
The world’s oldest astro stamps1940–49
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Date
Country
SG number(s)
Subject
1940
Brazil
629
Child and Southern Cross
Poland
396, 397
Copernicus memorial
1941
Norway
295
Fishing boat and aurora
1942
Denmark
336
Round Tower observatory
Italy
575–578
Galileo
Mexico
676–681
Tonantzintla Observatory
455
Nicolaus Copernicus
1943
Croatia
121, 122
Ruder Boskovic
459, 459a m/s
1944
342
Ole Rømer
1945
Greenland
15
Eskimo and midnight Sun
PE680
Galileo (pneumatic post)
524
1946
Colombia
649, 650
Bogotá Observatory
349
Tycho Brahe
Korea (South)
83
Kyongju Observatory
571b
Copernicus memorial at Jagiellonian University
1947
Jaipur
74
Jaipur Observatory
1948
109
USA
963
Palomar Observatory
973
Centenary of Fort Bliss
1949
Ecuador
901
Equatorial line monument
France
1060
Polar scene with aurora
1073
François Arago
Japan
555
Latitude Observatory
571
Hisashi Kimura