Recently I was lucky to find a stamp that emitted in Switzerland in 2000.
It is the world's first embroided stamp, face value of 5 Swiss Francs.
Even in 2000 it was not easy to obtain the stamp, and even collectors with a subscription to the new issues of Switzerland, sometimes had to wait to get this particular stamp.
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| the world's first embroided stamp |
The stamps were emitted in blocks of 4, forming a sheetlet with an additional embroided border.
One week later however, my joy was complete, as a full sheet of this stamp also came to auction.
There were no bidders (although not many Switserland collectors have the full sheet in their collection), so I obtained this piece of art, for a very affordable price.
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| Full sheet of the embroided Swiss stamp (2000) |
to be continued...
