Bosnia and Herzegovina Postage Due, 1922

Bosnia and Herzegovina · 1922 ·

This stamp is a postage due issue, designed to indicate an amount of postage to be collected from the recipient of a letter. The design is purely functional, featuring numerals and text within an ornamental frame, typical for such issues of the period.

Following World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bosnia and Herzegovina became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia). This stamp represents the transitional period of establishing a new postal system.