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Album weeds : or, How to detect forged stamps (1882)

Earée, R. B · London : Stanley Gibbons · leaf 168

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teen thin, parallel straight lines. FINLAND. The first stamps issued for this country were envelopes only, and it was not until 1856 that adhesives came into use. The earliest envelopes are rather puzzling to collectors, not only on account of their rarity, but also because there were two separate…

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