The leaf safety underprint on Persian tax stamps

While collecting Persian fiscal stamps for my Persia/Iran exhibit, I noticed the leaf underprints on some of the Persian tax stamps, and immediately I was able to establish a connection to the Austrian stamps, which from the beginning had exactly these leaf underprints. In 1854, stamps with underprints were introduced in Austria, continued in 1858 […]

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Persia/Iran exhibit sheet with information

The battle of Bazeilles takes place from August 31, 1870 to September 1, 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. This heroic episode inspired Alphonse de Neuville’s most famous patriotic painting, entitled Les Dernière Cartouches. For the French naval infantry, the defense of the last house on the road to Sedan to the last cartridge is an […]

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Loonlijsten en loonzegels van Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea (1961)

In 2014 is ter gelegenheid van het twintigjarig bestaan van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fiscale Filatelie een speciale jubileum publicatie verschenen over de fiscale waarden van Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea en Irian Barat: ”Fiscale zegelwaarden van Westelijk Nieuw-Guinea (1950-1971) door Jan Heijboer & Theo J.F. Schalke”.

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