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While browsing Ebay I recently ran into a listing which I first thought had read incorrectly. It was the “The 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area” set of stamps, with a date of publication of 22 May 2019. However, despite these stamps’ future day of issue here they were, available from […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a sheetlet containing two stamps showing the cap-badges of the Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a 30 won stamp on the occasion of “Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s Official Goodwill Visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamps series which was issued to mark the “107th Birth Anniversary of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung”.
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The greatest difficultly in studying DPRK stamps is that reliable references are very limited in number, and the information available might be incomplete or even incorrect. Some stamps are without images in catalogues, some are unissued; and once in a while, collectors may surprisingly find something they have never seen or known before. However, it […]
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Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking. Aside from […]
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Stamps with different colors were used to indicate different denominations until multicolored stamps appeared along with the development of color printing techniques. The majority of modern stamps are still of a single color design. In the early days of printing stamps, inks were made up in batches as needed and the colors were inconsistent. In […]
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It has been known for some time that the DPRK had numerous stamps designed that were numbered in the Korea Stamp Corporation’s DPRK Stamp Catalogue. Some of these items were illustrated as unissued stamps, but other “others,” until this past year, were not illustrated at all. Why they were not illustrated (though numbered) prior to […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a souvenir sheet which “was issued to mark the 100th anniversary of March 1 Popular Uprising.”
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a souvenir sheet containing one 100 won stamp “in Commemoration of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s Visit to the People’s Republic of China“.
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