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- art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp?
- in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan?
- in addition to designing postage stamps (pictured), Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani?
- the dinosaur Lufengosaurus, whose remains were found in China, was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp, in 1958?
- although the Azad Hind Stamps (pictured) are Cinderella stamps, the Indian Postal department deems them postage stamps?
- a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
- French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post?
- David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
- official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?
- stockbooks (pictured) are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
- France was the first to issue official postage due stamps in 1859?
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Question 1: Occupation stamp – a stamp for use by an occupying army or by the occupying ________ or authorities for use by civilians
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Question 3: ________ – advanced secure postage that uses information-based indicia (IBI) technology.
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Question 5: Coil stamps – tear-off stamps issued individually in a ________, or purchased in a roll
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Question 6: He submitted a copy of this to the ________, Thomas Spring-Rice, on 4 January 1837.
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Question 8: Countries such as ________ and Switzerland that use charitable fund-raising a lot design stamps more desirable for collectors.
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Question 9: ________ issued the Bull's Eye stamps on August 1, 1843.
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Question 10: Sierra Leone and Tonga issued stamps in the shapes of fruit; ________ issued one with its national anthem on a playable record.
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