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04 Oct 2019, 1:12 pm

My father talked about little countries that make money by making " official stamps " more sold to stamp collectors than used in their country.



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04 Oct 2019, 1:43 pm

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My father talked about little countries that make money by making " official stamps " more sold to stamp collectors than used in their country.

Yes! Lots of little island countries, I think, make good income from stamps (most of which are manufactured overseas and probably are never even present in the country itself). True of coins as well -- a number of European mints make coins in the name of various countries that are never really used in any sense by those countries, they just are for collectors.


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12 Oct 2019, 2:47 am

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12 Oct 2019, 5:40 am

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I'll see your 1954 baby and raise you two 1804 shields.

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13 Oct 2019, 7:08 pm

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13 Oct 2019, 11:31 pm

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Here's one for our local germanophile. I like the word "Flugpost." :D

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That's a very cool looking stamp. 8)


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13 Oct 2019, 11:38 pm

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from the World War I Propaganda, but there's no value on it




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1964 germany

double agent prince bernard (founder of bilderberg and wwf)
- the wtf of you don't want to know -
The Prince eventually went to work for the German chemical giant IG Farben in the early 1930s, then the world's fourth-largest company. (It survives today as BASF, AGFA, and Bayer). He joined the statistics department of IG Farben’s Berlin N.W. 7 department, the key Nazi overseas espionage center (known as VOWI) that evolved into the economic intelligence arm of the Wehrmacht.
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1966 before the lockheed scandal
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& now:https://www.opportunitiesforafricans.com/wwf-prince-bernhard-scholarships-2018/


I really like the 1964 stamp.


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13 Oct 2019, 11:41 pm

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Those are very lovely stamps.


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13 Oct 2019, 11:57 pm

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Those are very sweet stamps. :P


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16 Oct 2019, 1:56 am

I think I had some from this series when I was a kid.

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16 Oct 2019, 2:47 am

^^^nice
around the world in tractors, but is it strange ?
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17 Oct 2019, 1:54 am

^ The tractor collection is excellent.

Strange creatures on stamps:

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20 Oct 2019, 9:40 am

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21 Oct 2019, 1:05 am

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garuda again!
9-11 what? The Beer Hall Putsch of November 9, 1923 - Germany's Own 9/11. Ninety-five years ago on November 9, Munich was witness to an episode that turned the wheel of Europe's history to its darkest ...(https://thewire.in/history/beer-hall-pu ... manys-9-11) < fyi, haven't read that yet
(911 also very important in theosophical(spiritualist) circles, but that's oftopic too much)