Slovakia Postage Due Stamp, 1922

Slovakia · 1922 ·

This is a postage due stamp from Slovakia, intended to indicate the amount of postage that was underpaid by the sender and needed to be collected from the recipient. The design is purely functional and typographic, featuring the word 'PORTO' (Postage Due) and a numeral within an ornamental frame.

Following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I, the newly formed Czechoslovakia began issuing its own stamps. This postage due stamp is an early example of the new nation's postal administration.