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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Theme : Alphabets - 02b Thai alphabet - part 2

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Next to the stamps in the middle of the sheet, some other signs can be found on the border of the frame. Here we find the 'vowel'...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Theme : Alphabets - 02a Thai alphabet - part 1

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One of my favourite modern stamps is a set of 44 alphabet stamps, issued by Thailand. They were all depicted in two sheets, one of 24 and o...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina 2b - General José de San Martín

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After discussing the stamps of Gereral José de San Martín with open background, a second (smaller) group, is the one with plain background. ...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina 2a - General José de San Martín

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Similar to the 'labrador' issue, the second large series of Argentina is the one depicting General José de San Martín. They were ro...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina - 01 c

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A second group of Argentina 'labrador' stamps, are  those with the honeycomb watermark. There are two version, each with two sub v...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina - 01 b

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In my previous post, I have started to explain the main types of the Argentina 'labrador' (plower). There is a large version (5c an...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina - 01 a

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I recently got focussed on my Argentina collection of stamps. There is a lot of good and illustrated information online on classic Argentin...