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St.
HELENA 
First postage stamp issued:
1856
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: BDT (Ireland) and
Enschede (Netherlands). No
stamps appear to have been produced locally.
St. KITTS-NEVIS
First postage stamp issued:
1980
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Cot Printery (Barbados),
Walsall (GB), Cartor (France) and BDT (Ireland). No stamps appear to
have been produced locally.
St. LUCIA
First postage stamp issued:
1860
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Enschede (Netherlands),
BDT (Ireland) and Walsall
(GB). Some local overprinting (not attributable
to any particular printer) did occur in
addition to the entry recorded below.
Art
Printery, Castries.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1967 (Overprints) for
Fiji, from dies supplied by Harrison and
Sons Limited, Great Britain. A project to extend the tourist
shopping facility, La Place Carenage, on
lower Jeremie Street was started in 2000
on the site of the old Art Printery.
Government Printing Office,
[where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1930
(Postage Dues) for Fiji.
St.
THOMAS AND PRINCE ISLANDS
 First
postage stamp issued: 1975
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer].
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.
St.
VINCENT AND GRENADINES
 First
postage stamp issued: 1861
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Cartor (France), BDT (Ireland). No stamps appear to
have been produced locally. However, some
local surcharging (not attributable to any
particular printer) did occur. This is in
addition to the entry recorded below.
Reliance Printery,
Kingstown.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1979
(Overprints) for St. Vincent.
Publishers of books, such
as: “Guns, Opium and Christ”.
SAMOA
 First
postage stamp issued: 1877
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: BDT (Ireland), Cartor
(France) and Enschede (Netherlands). No
stamps appear to have been produced locally.
However, some local surcharging not attributable
to any particular printer did occur at Apia
in 1893. This is in addition to the entry
recorded below.
Samoanische Zeitung
[Samoa
Times], Apia.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1914 (Overprints) for
Western Samoa.
The Samoanische Zeitung is/was
a locally published newspaper.
SAN
MARINO
First
postage stamp issued: 1877
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Cartor (France).
SARAWAK
(See MALAYSIA)
SAUDI
ARABIA
First postage stamp issued:
1925 (For NEJD)
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
Dar Al-Asfahani, Jeddah.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1960 for Saudi Arabia.
Government Security Press,
Riyadh.
Founded: 1967 by De La Rue at
the request of the Saudi Government.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].
Government Stamp Printing
Works, Mecca.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1934 for Saudi Arabia.
State Printing Works,
Mecca.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1921 (Overprints), 1922 (Stamps) for Saudi
Arabia.
SCOTLAND
First
stamp issued: 1958
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: De La Rue (GB).
Maclure, Macdonald &
Co., Glasgow.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: 1869 for the Brooke
Family Administration of Sarawak.
Maclure, Macdonald &
Company were, in Victorian times, “Ornamental
Printers to the Queen”.
They produced 3-penny telephone
stamps for Great Britain in many shades
of brown-red by intaglio (engraving), in
sheets of 12, perf 12, in an initial printing
of 125,000, although further printings may
have subsequently been made.
SENEGAL
First postage stamp issued:
1960
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Impressor (Switzerland)
and Cartor (France)
Post
& Co., [where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1996
for Senegal.
SEYCHELLES
First
postage stamp issued: 1890
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: BDT (Ireland). No
stamps appear to have been produced locally.
However, some local surcharging not attributable
to any particular printer did occur.
SHARJAH
First postage stamp issued: 1964
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer].
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.
SIERRA
LEONE
First postage stamp issued:
1859
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by:BDT (Ireland), Walsall
(GB), Cartor (France).
Government Printer, Freetown.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1963
(Overprints) for Sierra Leone.
SINGAPORE
First postage stamp issued:
1948
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Enschede (Netherlands),
Walsall (GB), Southern Colour (New Zealand)
and Cartor (France).
Asher Security Printers
Singapore Pte. Limited.
(See
Security Printers (S) Pte Limited entry
below.)
Government Printer, Singapore.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1906 (Overprints) for Brunei.
Metal Box Singapore Limited,
Singapore.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1978
for Sri Lanka.
Main
printing process(es): Litho
Secura
Singapore Pte. Limited, Jurong
Town.
Founded: 1973.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1975
for Singapore.
Main
printing process(es): Litho
A subsidiary of Metal Box
Singapore Limited, Secura has access to
the security printing operation of Metal
Box in the United Kingdom. It has
become the foremost security printing company
in the Republic, specialising in security
and confidential print.
Security Printers (S)
Pte. Limited, Jurong Town. Founded as Asher Security
Printers Singapore Pte. Limited, a 50% share
in the company was purchased by Secura in
February 1985 and it was renamed Security
Printers (S) Pte. Limited. Both companies
trade from the same premises to take advantage
of the facilities offered by each other.
SLOVAKIA
First
postage stamp issued: 1939
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by:Postal Stationery Printing
House, Prague, Czech Republic.
From the very outset
Slovakia's postage stamp production has
aimed to take its place alongside that of
countries such as Sweden, Great Britain,
Austria, France and Switzerland, who have
a long tradition in issuing works of high
quality. That this was not an ill-judged
ambition is demonstrated by interest in
Slovak stamps from philatelists in dozens
of countries.
Kasico
J. C. Security Printing Office a.s., Bratislava.
Founded: 1991.
First postal
items: Stationery [when?]; Stamps 1998 [proposed].
Kasico, J.C. was established
in 1991 and has a basic capital of 9 million
Slovak crowns. The main object of its activity
is the production of valuables and state
documents, saving books, identification
papers, various prints and state documents
that require safe custody against manipulation.
This production forms 75 % of the output
of Kasico. The rest is the production
of advertising prints and plastic cards.
Kasico, J.C. has complete
technology facilities from composition,
creation of graphic design and design of
valuables, colour proofs, printing with
wet and dry offset letterset, to binding.
Almost 95 % of production go to the inland
market, with the rest being exported to
the Czech Republic, Croatia, Austria, Russia
etc.
A postal stationery printer
for the Slovak Post Office, private correspondence
indicated that 1998 should have resulted
in the printing of postage stamps for the
first time. It did not happen.
Slovenská
Grafia a s, Bratislava.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1939
for Slovakia. Slovenská Grafia is
a versatile and modern printing company
- the largest in Slovakia, working at the
forefront of print technology. The
company’s investment in modern plant enables
it to produce quality, high volume catalogues,
brochures, books and consumer magazines
for customers throughout East and West Europe.
SLOVENIA
First postage stamp issued:
1941
Stamp
printing for this country is primarily done
by: Enschede (Netherlands), Delo (Slovenia).
Cetis,
d.d., Graphic Company, Celje.
Founded: 1970.
First stamp(s)
traced by compiler: [when?].
Main
printing process(es): Litho,
Printing in the central Slovene
town of Celje has enjoyed more than 200
years of tradition. The most recent predecessor
of Cetis was the St. Hermagor Printing House,
from which the state-sponsored Celjska Tiskarna
printworks was established in 1949. A few
years later, the enterprise merged with
the local Celjski Tednik newspaper and operated
under the new name of Celjski Tisk, only
to regain its independence in 1965.
Following a merger between
the Celje printing house and Aero in 1970,
Cetis became independent in 1991 and a joint-stock
company in 1996. Cetis is undoubtedly the
leading private printing house in Slovenia
with an active presence all over Europe.
Production includes many
different types of security printing, for
postage stamp printing alone would not be
sufficient to justify the existence of the
company.
Delo
Tiskarna Printing Works, Ljubljana.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].
Main
printing process(es): Litho, die-cut The Delo Print Shop has a
long and rich tradition in the development
of graphic technology, introduction of new
technological processes and organisation
of modern and standardised production.
In co-operation with its
suppliers of production material, they strive
to achieve a level of quality, which will
satisfy all clients, in the production of
books, periodicals, advertising material,
bonds and postage stamps.
Ljuska Printing Works,
Ljubljana
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1949
(Overprints) for Trieste Zone B.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
First
postage stamp issued: 1975
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Cartor (France) and
Security Printers ( Malaysia). No
stamps appear to have been produced locally.
SOMALIA
First postage stamp issued:
1903
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer].
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.
SOUTH
AFRICA
 First
postage stamp issued: 1853 (For CAPE OF
GOOD HOPE)
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SOUTH WEST AFRICA
(See NAMIBIA)
SOUTHERN
RHODESIA
(See ZIMBABWE)
SPAIN
 First
postage stamp issued: 1850
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SRI
LANKA
First postage stamp issued: 1857 (for
Ceylon 1857-1972)
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Government Printer
(Sri Lanka).
Department
of Government Printing, Sri
Lanka.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
2002 for Sri Lanka.
Main
printing process(es): Litho.
Printcare Ceylon, Sri
Lanka.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
Postal Stationery (not stamps) for Sri Lanka.
Main
printing process(es): Litho.
Printcare Ceylon is a listed company in the stock exchange in Colombo. They are into lottery printing and are also stamp envelope printers
for the Postal Department of Sri Lanka.
SUDAN
 First
postage stamp issued: 1897
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
McCorquodale (Sudan) Limited,
Khartoum.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1942
(Values inserted into stamps printed by
Security Printing Press, Nasik, India) for
Ethiopia.
They would appear to primarily
be book printers. One internet entry read
“Stebbing, E.P. 1953, The creeping desert
in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa: 15-13
degrees of latitude, McCorquodale (Sudan),
Khartoum”
Sudan
Currency Printing Press Company Limited,
Khartoum.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1995
for Sudan.
Abbreviation known by: SCPP
Survey Department, Ministry
of Mineral Resources, Khartoum.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: Project aborted.
In 1956, just prior to independence,
an attempt was made to print definitive
stamps locally. Trials were made but they
were not up to standard and the project
was abandoned.
SURINAM
First postage stamp issued: 1873
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer].
Various overprints and / or surcharges were
made, but the name(s) of the printer(s)
have gone unrecorded.
H. B. Heijde, Paramaribo.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1892
for Surinam.
SWAZILAND
First
postage stamp issued: 1889
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Enschede (Netherlands).
No stamps appear to have been produced locally.
SWEDEN
 First
postage stamp issued: 1855
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SWITZERLAND
 First
postage stamp issued: 1843 (For SWISS
CANTONS)
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SYRIA
First postage stamp issued:
1919
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
State
Printing Works [Government Printer], Damascus.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler:
1955 for Syria.
Zeydoun, Damascus.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1953
for Syria.
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