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Friday, April 18, 2025

Call me by your number - 01a Black, red and blue pennies

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The first stamp ever, the notorious 'black penny', appeared in 1840. There were 11 plates (of which the first one had an 'A'...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Call me by your number - 00 b Introduction

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From the 'black penny in 1840, till the emission of 1883, plate numbers can be found on the stamps. Each of the plates had 240 stamps. M...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call me by your number - 00 a Introduction

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Numbers have always been appealing to people. But for once, the question is not 'how many stamps do you have'... but which numbers d...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Theme : 1st issues : 12 Guatemala

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Guatemala is a Republic, located in central America. In the North, it has a border with Mexico, in the East with Belize, in the South East w...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Odd stamps : 06 q Stamps on cotton / silk

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In 2017, Hong Kong emitted a set of 6 stamps, dedicated to fashion of the 1920's to the 1970's. The stamps came as single stamps, bu...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Odd stamps : 02h Silver / golden stamps

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Another gold foil stamp came to my attention, right at the moment that a good friend of mine was in Luxemburg. In 1923 a statue was inaugura...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Thai banknotes and their signatures 06b - King Rama IX - 1948 issue /2

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Four more signature combinations can be found on the notes issued as the 9th series (Rama IX - 1948 issue). For the others, see : thai-bankn...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Thai banknotes and their signatures 06a - King Rama IX - 1948 issue

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From 1948 on a complete new set of banknotes were issued. This is known as the 9th series of banknotes. They were printed between 1948 and 1...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Thai banknotes and their signatures 05 - Early years of Rama IX

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Signature combination 24, see : http://rainbowstampsandcoins.blogspot.com/2024/09/thai-banknotes-and-their-signatures-04b.html came on the ...