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It's just a small piece of paper,
Clean, worn, crumpled, or stained,
But the joy that the sight of it give me
Has never, no never, been named.
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It certainly would be opportune to give a short sketch of the person whose face first adorned a postage stamp for, although the life of Victoria of England is familiar more or less to all of us, since hers was the first face placed on a stamp used for postage, it would seem that a review of her great and useful life should appear here.
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There are various sources where those “special coins” can be purchased. The following are the basic methods and starting places to obtain the coin(s) you have long wanted.
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On the 50 reis stamp of Brazil 1906, we can find face of Cabral, the discoverer of Brazil (or rather second discoverer, for Pincon, a companion of Columbus, first discovered the country).
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Though it was given the laugh when it was first introduced by an English Schoolmaster, the civilized world today pays homage to the postage stamp, the friend of humanity, on its hundred and sixty eighth birthday.
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We have put this descending list together, based on our own experience of selling collections. If you are a seller, you may well have a very different point of view. All we can say is that this list accurately reflects our own successes and failures in selling general collections from these commonwealth nations. We find that accumulations from those countries at the top of the list cause a frenzy of bidding. Sometimes the winning bid exceeds the combined cat. value. At the other end of the scale, we have generally found that lots sell for prices that make a mockery of their supposed worth.
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On the 15 fennigi stamp of the Republic of Poland in its last issue of 1919 appears the face of Paderewski, whose unusual career at once attracts attention and admiration of all. It is probably the only instance in history where a noted musician has been honored with his picture on a postage stamp, although ohim.f course it was not his fame in that line which prompted his country to so honor
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