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[Editor] I have received a request for more information about the following figure. What we know is that they have first day cancels, but for other stamps. They were apparently cancelled for the opening of the national assembly. Please let us know what more you might know about these stamps. Thanks.
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The 3rd Asian Winter Games brought trouble twice to North Korean stamps. This started when the author noticed one stamp that had been recorded in the second edition of the North Korean Stamp Catalogue but has subsequently been deleted completely from the new, third edition published last year.
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After ten years since the first edition of this full color(!) catalogue of North Korean stamps, the third edition was published by the Korea Stamp Corporation, Pyongyang, in 2003. Chronologically, the first edition was published early in 1993, containing up to #3277, the winners of 25th Olympic Games, issued December, 1992, and consisted of the […]
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Contents of Korean Philately Volume 54 Number 1. This was the February 2012 edition of the KP.
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Can you help me identify this Korean stamp? I cannot find it in a catalogue. Maybe it’s a fake? (From: Harald Zierock, France)
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Contents of Korean Philately Volume 50 Number 3. This was the August 2005 edition of the KP.
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(KSS members only content.) Members of the KSS can download complete PDF files of past editions of Korean Philately magazine. If you are a member of KSS and would like to read this edition of Korean Philately, please login using your KSS website account and password. Complimentary sample copies of the Korean Philately are available on […]
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Hasegawa’s new revenue catalogue does not include those stamps issued in the U.S. in U.S. dollars. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate two such stamps, denominated $10, and contained in my own passport that has now expired and has been cancelled. The stamps were used to verify payment of visa fees. One has a serial number, […]
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A few years ago, I was offered, for a few dollars, the upper cover shown here, the multiple franking (there are 17 more copies of the stamp on the reverse!) on 9 August 2002, reflecting the stellar inflation of the postage from the first of the month from 5chon to 3won, an increase of a […]
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