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Join the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria for a look at the stamps of the Italian Occupied Balkans During World War II.

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Join the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria for a look at World Wars.

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This presentation, given via Zoom video conferencing to an international audience of some 60 people from around the world, covers the development of the printing process of the stamps. Markand Dave discusses the interesting story of the stamp design drawing competition, featuring the earliest of the artist’s sketches, and the…

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If you got some stamps of China, you probably will see some numbers at the bottom of the stamps. In this episode, Richard Philatelist talks about the numbering system of China Stamps.

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The United Kingdom (UK) was very strict on people on stamps, but gradually relaxed the rules and in 2005 the policy about the limitation of living people was abolished. In this episode, Richard Philatelist talks about people on the stamps of the UK and the controversies behind it.

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In this episode of Snail Mail with Smokey he takes you on a walkthrough of Hipstamp.com.

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Kyles’s Stamps has a folder for stamps he failed to identify from the last couple of years. He tried and gave up, then put them in this folder. Luckily, he is better at identifying stamps these days and has another go at them. He only goes through half of them…

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Many nations have a representation of their country as a person, usually a woman. In this episode, Ted Talks Stamps gives a brief overview of some of the countries which have depicted these personifications on their postage stamps. Collecting these issues also makes for an interesting topical collection.

View More Ted Talks Stamps: Ep.83 – Personification of Nations On Postage Stamps of the World

Join the Lithuania Philatelic Society for their February 2023 philatelic meetup. Presentation by Daumantas Kiulkys about the ship mail history in the Curonian lagoon.

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