First class postage rate was 33 cents for the first ounce. Second ounce was 22 cents. A postcard cost 20 cents. This question depends on which country you live.
In the US you can. Any stamp issued since the Civil War can be used for postage. As long as the total 44 cents for the first ounce, you're okay!
There were no postage stamps in 1752- the first postage stamp appeared in 1840 in England. The US was under British colonial rule in 1752. There was a postal service and Benjamin Franklin was the Postmaster General. I am sorry that I do not know the postage rates, I am pretty sure they varied with the distance the mail had to travel.
.60 cents for a first class stamp. .50 cents for a second class stamp.
Stamps were not available in 1812. The first where used in Great Britain in 1840. When the first US stamps camp out, they were 5 cents for the first 1/2 ounce of mail.
It was 5 cents for the first half ounce of mail.
91 cents or 3 stamps of 44 cents ea.
First Class Mail was first priced at 45 cents on 22 January 2012.
The postage rate for 1st Class mail was 37 cents. There were many different commemoritives issued. For the rate change they had some Flag and Antique Toy stamps with no amounts listed on them.
In the US it would cost 61 cents to mail a two ounce letter. It is 44 cents for the first ounce and 17 cents for each additional ounce.
The number of stamps depends on the value of the stamps and how much the item weighs. Standard first class for one ounce is 45 cents.
Anything from one to forty-four stamps, depending on the value of the stamps. An ounce of first class mail is 44 cents in June of 2009.