tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-383757342024-02-19T02:07:05.576-08:00The Stamp ThingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38375734.post-80623536004422121062020-08-28T11:09:00.003-07:002020-08-28T11:11:33.208-07:00Father Ted<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCHBKt79TGMPrq6M8wCTls5T9JZo5x6-Bo9e4xRLDhdpkKZf_JqR3jnbGbJdOkZABJG5tm-Aw_EVsGU8eUNemCTGEr8RuqvcRKpENtUywotCFr3s5PF6l459IYzotyEhEnI0a9Ag/s300/Father+Ted+stamps.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCHBKt79TGMPrq6M8wCTls5T9JZo5x6-Bo9e4xRLDhdpkKZf_JqR3jnbGbJdOkZABJG5tm-Aw_EVsGU8eUNemCTGEr8RuqvcRKpENtUywotCFr3s5PF6l459IYzotyEhEnI0a9Ag/s0/Father+Ted+stamps.jpeg" /></a></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/stireland">FACEBOOK - STAMP THING - IRELAND</a></b></div><br /><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Irish Post Office An Post has issued a set of four stamps featuring the much loved TV comedy series Father Ted. This is to celebrate 25 years since its first airing.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The set comprises four stamps, all feature one-liners from the show.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Each stamp also features retro wallpaper as a background, each reflecting a fdifferent room in the parochial house.</span></b></div></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.sdcollectables.co.uk/ireland-162-c.asp">IRELAND FOR SALE</a></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38375734.post-22782364362503031762018-08-11T09:53:00.002-07:002018-08-11T09:53:30.318-07:00Australian Antarctic Territory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Polar philately is a fascinating field and the stamps featuring Antactica are particularly attractive. There are, or have been, four issuing authorities for Antarctic stamps; the UK (British Antarctic Territory), Australia (Australian Antarctic Territory, New Zealand (Ross Dependency) and France (French Southern and Antarctic Territories).</div>
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The Australian Antarctic Territory has been issuing stamps since 1957. All stamps feature Antarctica, its scenery, science, wildlife and history. AAT has a very conservative issuing policy, one set a year is normal! You could quite easily complete an AAT collection, no regular stamps are catalogued over about £20. Once you have the complete collection mint and used why not try hunting down some covers actually used in Antarctica?</div>
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The most popular theme for thematic collectors is birds, and it's easy to see why! Many thousands of stamps featuring birds have been issued since 1845 (one of the famous <a href="http://basel%20%27doves%27/">Basel 'Doves'</a> sold a few years ago for many thousands of pounds and people were shocked as it was for a thematic collection!)</div>
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The range of stamps featuring birds is so vast that many collectors narrow their collection to specialise in ducks, birds of prey, penguins etc etc.</div>
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The UK has just issued a superb set of 10 first class stamps featuring owls. Perhaps now is the time to start collecting these issues?</div>
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Over the last few years I've built up quite a stock of Germany and at last I've got round to the huge task of listing it on the website!</div>
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Probably out of all the European countries Germany has the most varied and interesting history, and this is reflected really well in the stamps. Through the issues of the pre 1870 states, through the unified issues and on to the Nazi era, followed by the partition following World War Two, occupations (both by and of Germany), colonies and issues for areas like Memel, Danzig, Saar and Berlin, there is enough to keep any collector busy for a lifetime.</div>
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Latest addition to the growing range of Stamp Thing Facebook groups is for Belgium and Colonies. I am currently adding an excellent collection of Belgium to the website, mainly used and mounted mint but including some unmounted mint items especially miniature sheets.</div>
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Many Belgian stamps can still be purchased at reasonable prices and building a collection is fairly easy. The colonies add another dimension to collecting Belgian material, the stamps of Belgium itself often referencing its colonial heritage.</div>
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Currently listing (though to be fair most are selling as soon as they go on!) are stamps from the Isle of Man, a small island in the Celtic Sea which lies close to England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The island had UK regionals from 1958 and became postally independent in 1973. There are earlier revenue stamps specifically for the island as well.</div>
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Reasonable amounts of stamps are issued each year and most issues are relevant to the island, which is distinct in many ways (from cats to trams) as is not part of the UK but a self-governing territory - in fact it has the world's oldest continuing parliament (Tynwald). Its distictive flag (the treskillion) shows the symbol of the island on a red field, the island issues its own currency (sterling, but with a Manx theme), it has its own language (Manx, a Celtic language, similar to Cornish, Welsh etc) and has a fantastic network of narrow gauge trains and trams, including steam, electric and horse-powered. It is an intriguing mix of the best of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but is also distinctively Manx.</div>
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A very popular collecting area is Bermuda. This small group of islands off the east coast of the USA are still a colony of the UK rather than an independent nation. They have a conservative stamp issuing policy and all stamps are relevant to the islands.</div>
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I am currently listing Luxembourg, mainly modern issues. The country follows a fairly conservative stamp issuing programme with few stamps over €1 face value. Most stamps have a local or European theme.</div>
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The United Kingdom has always been a country of at least four nations but this wasn't really reflected in stamps until the regional issues of 1958 were issued. These Wilding designs were for the three larger countries of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and also for the much smaller regions (not part of the UK) of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.</div>
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There were not many stamps issued in these first sets as postage rates were fairly stable. Guernsey and Jersey both got their own postal authorities in 1969, so these areas never issued decimal regionals. In fact Guernsey now has regionals of its own for Alderney.</div>
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There was of course one huge anomaly - the largest country of the UK, England, did not have any regional stamps! These were finally issued in 2001. England never had Machin issues, the first issues being of the new 'Emblems' style. These are illustrated above, the English stamps being the oak and rose.</div>
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There is now a growing sense of regional identity in England, with Cornwall (never technically part of England) leading the way in calling for more regional powers. Other areas of England, Wessex and Mercia in particular, are following the Cornish path. So the regional story is only really just beginning!</div>
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I recently found a really nice collection of Andorra (French and Spanish POs) and I've just started listing these as well as setting up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/stAndorra/">Facebook page</a> for the country. These are very well produced stamps and both POs have a conservative issuing policy. I'll be listing these over the next week or two.</div>
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I was really only looking for stock sheets to send stamps out to customers so the Andorran material was a bit of a bonus.</div>
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I visited Andorra in 1981 and remember a difficult climb over a mountain pass to reach there with the car almost shuffering to a halt on the way. I haven't returned since and only stayed one night. No doubt I will go back one day!</div>
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The latest country to get its own Stamp Thing group is Netherland Antilles. They issue an excellent selection of thematics as well as attractive definitive series. </div>
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I've started the process of working my way through South America, an area which up till now hads been almost absent from the website! I do have a fair amount of stock of various countries, though in most cases one of each. Each country eill be getting its own Facebook group of course, and also soon each will have its own blog or mini-website concentrating on just the one country. This will be rolled out over the next few months, along with a (non-selling) stamp and collectables website. Keep checking the blog and Facebook group for more info!</div>
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The countries of Central and South America are a very rich field for philatelic study and give an insight into a part of the world that many of us are not particularly familiar with. As well as the regular postage issues there are many fascinating and unusual revenue stamps.</div>
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Bridging the gap slightly are the departmental officials of Argentina, all fully listed in Gibbons and, for the 1913-1938 issues, even get their own special section within the SG South America catalogue. Stamps were issued for eight different departments - MA, Ministry of Agriculture; MG, Ministry of War; MH, Ministry of Finance; MI, Ministry of the Interior; MJI, Ministry of Justice and Instruction; MM, Ministry of Marine; MOP, Ministry of Public Works and MRC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religion.</div>
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The <b>postage stamps of Ireland</b> are issued by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_administration" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postal administration">postal operator</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Republic of Ireland">independent Irish state</a>. Ireland was part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a> when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840. These stamps, and all subsequent British issues, were used in Ireland until the new <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Government" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Government">Irish Government</a> assumed power in 1922. Beginning on 17 February 1922, existing British stamps were<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overprint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Overprint">overprinted</a> with Irish text to provide some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitive_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Definitive stamp">definitives</a> until separate Irish issues became available. Following the overprints, a regular series of definitive stamps was produced by the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegraphs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Minister for Posts and Telegraphs">Department of Posts and Telegraphs</a>, using domestic designs. These definitives were issued on 6 December 1922; the first was a 2d stamp, depicting a map of Ireland (including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, which remained a part of the United Kingdom). Since then new images, and additional values as needed, have produced of seven definitive series of different designs.</div>
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These were the major stamp productions for everyday use. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Commemorative stamp">Commemorative stamps</a> first appeared in 1929, and these now appear several times a year, celebrating many aspects of Irish life, such as notable events and anniversaries, Irish life and culture, and many famous <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of people on stamps of Ireland">Irish people</a>. Some definitive and commemorative stamps have been produced in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_sheet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Miniature sheet">miniature sheet</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_booklet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp booklet">booklet</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Coil stamp">coil</a> configurations in addition to the common sheet layout. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage due">Postage dues</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Airmail">airmails</a> complete the stamp issues of the two, sequential, Irish stamp-issuing authorities. Two styles of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Watermark">watermark</a> were used though the overprinted issues came with the watermarks of the British stamps provided for overprinting by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_(United_Kingdom)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Post Office (United Kingdom)">British Post Office</a>.</div>
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<i>Oifig an Phoist</i>, the Irish Post Office, was the section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs which issued all Irish stamps up to 1984. After the division of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs into two<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_bodies_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="State-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland">semi-state organisations</a> in 1984, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Post" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Post">An Post</a> took over the responsibility for all Irish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mail">postal</a> services including the issuing of postage stamps.</div>
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Numeral handstamp <b>70 </b>identifying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle,_County_Roscommon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Boyle, County Roscommon">Boyle</a> post office, used on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Red" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Penny Red">1d red stamp</a>in 1850</div>
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To identify postage stamps used in Ireland between 1840 and 1922, it is necessary to identify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postmark">postmark</a> cancelling the stamp as being from an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of towns in Ireland">Irish town</a>. Stamps used during this period are referred to as <i>Great Britain used in Ireland</i>.</div>
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From 1840 to 1844, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Penny Black">Penny Black</a>, and other stamps issued, were obliterated with the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_Cross" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Maltese Cross">Maltese Cross</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancellation_(mail)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cancellation (mail)">cancellation</a>. There was no text or numeral to help identify any of these cancels as Irish, but some Maltese Crosses are uniquely identifiable with certain Irish towns, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyrecourt" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Eyrecourt">Eyrecourt</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_(city)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cork (city)">Cork</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollymount" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hollymount">Hollymount</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Limerick">Limerick</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullingar" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Mullingar">Mullingar</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> From 1844 on, the cancels used included text or numerals that identified the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_town" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Post town">post town</a>. Cancels of both types are easier to identify if the stamp is still affixed to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cover (philately)">cover</a>, since this makes the complete postmark visible, but a stamp no longer affixed to a cover may still permit identification of the town of use if enough of the postmark can be seen on the stamp itself.</div>
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Between 1922 and 1983 <i>Oifig an Phoist</i>, the Irish Post Office, a section of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegraphs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Minister for Posts and Telegraphs">Department of Posts and Telegraphs</a> (P&T), issued all postage stamps in the 26 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Counties of Ireland">counties of Ireland</a>. During this time they employed some of the following companies to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overprint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Overprint">overprint</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_printing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Security printing">print</a> the stamps: Dollard, Thom, Irish Government Printers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterlow_and_Sons" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Waterlow and Sons">Waterlow and Sons</a> (London), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="De La Rue">De La Rue and Co.</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Wilkinson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bradbury Wilkinson">Bradbury Wilkinson</a> and Co., Ltd., (London), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_and_Sons" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harrison and Sons">Harrison and Sons</a> Ltd., (London) and Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd.</div>
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Since 1984, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Post" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Post">An Post</a></i> has issued all Irish postage stamps. Most have been printed by Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd., though a small number were printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd., (London), Questa, Walsall Security Printing, Prinset Pty Ltd., (Australia) and SNP Cambec (Sprintpak) (Australia).</div>
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In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_collecting" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stamp collecting">stamp collecting</a> circles, the word <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forerunner_(stamp)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Forerunner (stamp)">forerunner</a></i> usually describes a postage stamp used during the time period before a region or territory issues stamps of its own. However, in Irish reference books, such as <i>Handbook of Irish Philately</i>, the term <i>forerunners</i> usually refers to political and propaganda labels. These often resemble stamps, but few of them were used on Irish mail and they had no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Standing (law)">legal standing</a> for mail in Ireland.</div>
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Four values, 1c, 3c, 24c (deep-green), and 24c (mauve-purple) were produced in New York by the Irish veterans of the US Civil War and are known as the 1865–67 Fenian issue. The 1893 colonial design are unofficial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Essay (philately)">essays</a> and are classed as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philatelic_fakes_and_forgeries#Bogus_stamps" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Philatelic fakes and forgeries">bogus</a>.</div>
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1907 <i>Celtic Cross</i> Sinn Féin propaganda label</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">Between 1907 and 1916, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a>, one of the nationalist organisations of the time, issued propaganda labels symbolising Irish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Independence">nationhood</a>. Their use as stamps was forbidden by Post Office regulations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-feldman_6-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-feldman-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></sup> The first design was a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Cross" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Celtic Cross">Celtic Cross</a>, similar to one later adopted for two definitive stamps of 1923, and the second depicts a female figure and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harp">harp</a> in an oval frame. In 1912, labels inscribed "Imperial Union" appeared, with a design of a larger harp and female figure. These labels, expressing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Unionism in Ireland">unionist</a> sentiments, are believed to have been printed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> as a counter to the Sinn Féin labels. After the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Rule_Act_1914" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Home Rule Act 1914">Home Rule</a> Bill for Ireland was passed in parliament, an Irish Republican body issued labels in 1916 with the portraits of three nationalist heroes known as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Martyrs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Manchester Martyrs">The Manchester Martyrs</a></i> against an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_tricolour" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish tricolour">Irish tricolour</a> background. Forgeries of these labels are common.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 12.4444px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">Following the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px; text-decoration: none;" title="Easter Rising">Easter Rising</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;"> of 1916, American sympathisers printed eight </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">ERIE PUIST</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;"> labels showing portraits of seven prominent leaders and a </span><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">harp and shamrock</i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;"> label. The misspelling ERIE for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ire" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px; text-decoration: none;" title="Éire">ÉIRE</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;"> could have been because of hasty preparation.</span></div>
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The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1922%E2%80%931969)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)">Irish Republican Army</a>, that controlled much of the southern part of the country during the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_civil_war" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish civil war">Irish civil war</a>, issued a 1d, 2d and 6d label, mainly because of a stamp shortage. These were printed in Cork and were to be put on sale in August 1922, but in the meantime the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> army landed near Cork and the IRA set fire to their own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Barracks">barracks</a> before they retreated from Cork, destroying most of the labels.</div>
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Three bi-colour Hely Ltd. essays</div>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegraphs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Minister for Posts and Telegraphs">Postmaster General of the Irish Free State</a> issued an invitation to firms in Dublin and London on 1 February 1922 for the submission of designs for a permanent definitive stamp issue, and by March several designs had been submitted. The following companies and printers provided <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Essay (philately)">essays</a>: Dollard Printing House Ltd., Hely Ltd., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Bacon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Perkins Bacon">Perkins Bacon & Co.</a>, and O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp">Postage stamps</a> of the Provisional Government (Jan-Dec 1922) consisted of overprinted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">British</a> stamps. The text in traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish orthography">Irish orthography</a> reads <i>Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann 1922 </i>and translates as <i>Provisional Government of Ireland 1922</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">In 1922, as an interim measure before the first specially designed definitives were ready, a series of contemporary stamps of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George V of the United Kingdom">King George V</a> were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overprint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Overprint">overprinted</a>. The unoverprinted stamps were issued and in use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland between 1912 and 1922 and continued in use in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland">Great Britain and Northern Ireland</a> until 1936. Three printing firms held overprinting contracts: Dollard Printing House Ltd., Alex. Thom & Co Ltd., and Harrison & Sons. In June 1925 the Government Printers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Castle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dublin Castle">Dublin Castle</a>, obtained the contract and completed all overprinting until 1937,</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 12.4444px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 29.8667px;">when the final, high-value stamps were issued.</span></div>
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Collecting and identifying the overprints can be an arduous task as there are numerous variations in the overprint settings. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Feldman_(philatelist)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="David Feldman (philatelist)">Feldman</a> states "the complex details of plating, shading, overprint colours, accurate measurements, to mention a few, often discourage even the most enthusiastic collector". Three specialised books, or catalogue chapters, (Freeman & Stubbs, Munk and Meredith), issued within five years of issue have concentrated on this topic and Meredith is regarded as unequalled.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> three-line overprint<i>Saorstát Éireann 1922</i> on 2/6 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George V of the United Kingdom">King George V</a> stamp engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison_(engraver)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Harrison (engraver)">J.A.C. Harrison</a></div>
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Two distinct overprints were made, before and after the formal independence of the state on 6 December 1922. The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Provisional Government of Ireland">Provisional Government of Ireland</a> (<i>Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann</i>) overprints were initially issued on 17 February 1922, with eight low-value and three high-value stamps overprinted by Dollard and four by Thom.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a></sup> This overprint is composed of the four words <i>Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann</i> and the numeral date <i>1922</i> arranged in five lines of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Serif">seriffed</a> text. The unoverprinted stamps remained valid for postage in Ireland until 31 March 1922.</div>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> (<i>Saorstát Éireann</i>) overprints debuted on 11 December 1922. This is a three-line overprint using a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sans-serif">sans-serif</a> typeface and was done by Thom, Harrison and the Government Printers. The last overprinted stamps were the Waterlow & Sons re-engraved King George V 2/6, 5/- and 10/- values that appeared in 1934 and were overprinted in 1937 for use in Ireland.</div>
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See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Irish_state" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Names of the Irish state">Names of the Irish state</a></div>
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On stamps, the name of the state has always been written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish language">Irish</a> and rarely also written in English.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-miller-passim_16-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-miller-passim-16" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a></sup> The overprints were stamped first <i>Rialtas Sealadach na hÉireann</i> ("Provisional Government of Ireland") and later <i>Saorstát Éireann</i> ("Irish Free State"). Subsequent stamps nearly all used the name <i>Éire</i> ("Ireland"), even though this was not the name of the state until the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Constitution of Ireland">1937 Constitution</a> took effect. The exceptions were issued in 1949 and 1950, and used<i>POBLAĊT NA hÉIREANN</i> or <i>Poblacht na h-Éireann</i> ("Republic of Ireland"). This phrase is the official <i>description</i> of the state specified in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_Act_1948" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Republic of Ireland Act 1948">Republic of Ireland Act</a>, which came into force in April 1949; the state's <i>name</i> was not changed by the Act.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fianna Fáil">Fianna Fáil</a> defeated the outgoing government in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election,_1951" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish general election, 1951">1951 election</a> and abandoned the use of the description, reverting to the name on stamps and elsewhere. Originally, <i>Éire</i> was written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gaelic type">Gaelic type</a>; from 1952 to 1979, many stamps had the name of the state in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_type" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Roman type">Roman type</a>, usually in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="All caps">all caps</a>, and often written <i>EIRE</i> rather than <i>ÉIRE</i>, omitting the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%ADneadh_fada" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Síneadh fada">síneadh fada</a></i> accent over the initial 'E'. In 1981 the Department of Posts and Telegraphs recommended the inclusion of the word "Ireland" along with "Éire" on stamps but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_the_Taoiseach" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Department of the Taoiseach">Department of the Taoiseach</a> vetoed the idea on the basis it could cause "constitutional and political repercussions" and that "the change could be unwelcome."</div>
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1922–23 First Definitive Series (low values)</div>
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Since 1922, seven Irish definitive stamp series have been released. Besides different designs, there were changes involving the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Watermark">watermark</a> and eventually doing away with watermarked paper, changes in currency were also reflected on the stamps: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Decimal Day">decimalisation</a> in 1971, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_of_the_euro" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Introduction of the euro">Euro changeover</a> in 2002.</div>
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The first twelve stamps, the low values up to 1 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Shilling">shilling</a>, were issued during 1922–1923, while the three high values, 2/6, 5/- and 10/-, did not appear until 8 September 1937. Designs included: <i>Sword of Light</i>, <i>Map of Ireland</i>, <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Cross" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Celtic Cross">Celtic Cross</a></i>, <i>Arms of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Provinces of Ireland">Four Provinces</a></i> and <i>St. Patrick</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-firstdefins_19-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-firstdefins-19" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a></sup> Watermark and extra values were made until new designs, known as the <i>Gerl definitives</i>, using early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_art" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish art">Irish art</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(art)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Motif (art)">motifs</a>, were produced in 1968. These were the first new designs in 31 years for the high values and 46 years for the low values. The Gerl series were denominated initially in sterling and later in decimal currency (both watermarked issues) and lastly as unwatermarked stamps.</div>
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Between 1982 and 1988 a series based on Irish architecture through the ages was released, with line drawings by Michael Craig and graphics by Peter Wildbur. It contained twenty-eight stamps, with values ranging from 1p to £5. Stamps based on Irish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cultural heritage">cultural heritage</a> followed between 1990 and 1995. Irish <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Birds">birds</a> feature in the 1997 series that span the conversion of currency from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish pound">Irish pound</a>, through dual currency to the introduction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Euro">Euro</a>. These were the first definitives where all values were printed in full colour. On 9 September 2004 new stamps, featuring flowers native to the woodlands and hedgerows of Ireland, become available. These were replaced in September 2010 by a seventh series featuring animals and marine life using photographic images.</div>
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Several Irish definitives have been issued in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_booklet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp booklet">booklet</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Coil stamp">coil</a> formats in addition to the normal sheet configuration.</div>
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First commemorative stamps, issued in 1929</div>
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Irish postage stamps have been released to commemorate a wide variety of Irish topics, such as Irish notable events and anniversaries, aspects of Irish life and culture, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_stamps_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of people on stamps of Ireland">famous Irish people</a> (statesmen, religious, literary and cultural figures, athletes, etc.), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Fauna">fauna</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Flora">flora</a>, works of art, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Christmas stamp">Christmas</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_postage_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Europa postage stamp">Europa postage stamps</a> have been issued since 1960 to celebrate membership of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), and international events have also been commemorated.</div>
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The first commemorative, a set of three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%27Connell" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Daniel O'Connell">Daniel O'Connell</a> stamps, appeared on 22 June 1929. Until the mid-1990s, with only three exceptions in 1943, 1977 and 1979 for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hyde" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Douglas Hyde">Douglas Hyde</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_le_Brocquy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis le Brocquy">Louis le Brocquy</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> respectively, it was policy to not depict living persons. This policy has been put aside and since 1995 there have been several such issues, mainly depicting athletes; for instance 30 stamps were issued showing living Irish sportsmen for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Millennium">Millennium</a> and several golfers are shown on three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ryder_Cup" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="2006 Ryder Cup">2006 Ryder Cup</a> stamps.</div>
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1953 one shilling 4 pence<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_T%C3%B3stal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Tóstal">An Tóstal</a></div>
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1953 two-pence halfpenny<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_T%C3%B3stal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Tóstal">An Tóstal</a></div>
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1957 birth centenary of author <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Criomhthain" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tomás Ó Criomhthain">Tomás Ó Criomhthain</a></div>
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1972 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_sheet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Miniature sheet">Miniature sheet</a> commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence</div>
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Some stamps were issued in the form of a miniature sheet comprising from one to sixteen stamps of a single, or multiple, design from one issue printed on the same sheet and sold in that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paper size">format</a>. The miniature sheets are most often produced in addition to the same designs issued as single stamps.</div>
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The first miniature sheet of four <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_on_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stamp on stamp">stamp on stamp</a> postage stamps was issued in 1972 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Irish postage stamp. This was followed by a four-stamp sheet to commemorate the bicentenary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a>; the stamps in this sheet were also available as single stamps. A set of four stamps showing Irish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Wildlife">wildlife</a> was issued in sheet form and also as single stamps in 1980.</div>
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Since 1983 miniature sheets have been produced with increasing frequency, from at least one per year initially to several sheets more recently.</div>
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Seven Irish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Airmail stamp">airmail stamps</a> were issued between 1948 and 1965 in the 1d, 3d, 6d, 8d, 1/-, 1/3 and 1/5 values. No specific airmail rate existed for the 1d and 3d stamps though their use was permitted on non-airmail correspondence; all others paid a contemporaneous rate when first produced. These were the only airmail stamps ever issued but many definitives and commemoratives have been produced in values that paid the postage rate for airmail service.</div>
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1 shilling airmail stamp – <i>Vox Hiberniæ</i> flying over Glendalough</div>
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The stamps were designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_King_(artist)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Richard King (artist)">R.J. King</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Photogravure">recess</a> printed by Waterlow and Sons, London, until 1961, and thereafter by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Rue" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="De La Rue">De La Rue & Co</a>, Dublin. The designs feature the <i>Flight of the Angel Victor – Messenger of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Saint Patrick">St. Patrick</a> – carrying the Voice of the Irish 'Vox <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hibernia">Hiberniæ</a>' over the world</i> flying over four well-known Irish historical landmarks, one from each of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Provinces of Ireland">four provinces of Ireland</a>: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Derg_(Donegal)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lough Derg (Donegal)">Lough Derg</a> (3d and 8d values), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Cashel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Rock of Cashel">Rock of Cashel</a> (1d, 1/3 and 1/5 values), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendalough" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Glendalough">Glendalough</a> (1/- value) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croagh_Patrick" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Croagh Patrick">Croagh Patrick</a> (6d value). These were printed in sheets of 60 stamps with an 'e' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Watermark">watermark</a>.</div>
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Surcharges imposed by the Irish post office on mail bearing insufficient pre-paid postage had the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_due" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage due">postage due</a> collected by the use of these labels. Since 1925 there have been six series printed, with the design remaining the same until 1980, though the colour and watermarks have changed. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish language">Irish</a> word <i>pingin</i>, for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Penny">penny</a>, is used in both £.s.d and decimal currency, but because it has the same meaning in each, the value on the label does not indicate whether the label was issued before or after decimalisation. Hence, identifying the issue of a label requires further information: if collectors knows the date of use, the existence of a watermark and if so which type, and the specific colour, identification will be easier. For example, the 3d value was blue between 1940 and 1969, and stone colour from 1971 until 1980; it changed from a watermarked to a non-watermark paper in 1978. Additionally, the 1, 5 and 8 pence values are seen in two different colours depending on the issue, while the <span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">1</sup>⁄<sub style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sub></span>d, 1d, 2d and 6d are seen with both watermark varieties. Except for the sixth issue, which has the word <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ire" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Éire">Éire</a> in the design, there is no explicit country identity on any of the others. The first four series use only Irish words.</div>
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Reused 1962 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Cover (philately)">envelope</a> with 10d <i>Second Issue</i> postage due affixed to mail sent to local office of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century_Fox" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="20th century Fox">20th century Fox</a> with <i>certifying cachet</i> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Film_Classification_Office" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Film Classification Office">IFCO</a> in 1965.</div>
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The first issue consisted of four values released on 20 February 1925; <span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">1</sup>⁄<sub style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sub></span>d, 1d, 2d and 6d. Typographed by the Government Printers in Dublin Castle on 'se' watermarked paper. The sheets were printed in larger sheets of 180 divided into three panes of 60 labels. The second issue had ten values: <span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">1</sup>⁄<sub style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sub></span>d, 1d, 1<span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">1</sup>⁄<sub style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sub></span>d, 2d, 3d, 5d, 6d, 8d, 10d and 1/-, and were printed on 'e' watermarked paper between 1940 and 1969. Other details are the same.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_of_Ireland#cite_note-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a></sup></div>
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A third issue was made up of seven labels and issued in decimal currency in the following values: 1p, 1<span class="frac nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">1</sup>⁄<sub style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sub></span>p, 3p, 4p, 5p, 7p and 8p. In the fourth issue the 3p, 4p and 5p values were reissued in non-watermarked paper on 20 March 1978. A new design, printed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Photogravure">photogravure</a>, and appeared on 20 June 1980 in ten values: 1p, 2p, 4p, 6p, 8p, 18p, 20p, 24p, 30p and 50p made up the fifth issue. The sheet format was two panes of 100 divided by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gutter (philately)">gutter margin</a>. The sixth issue consisted of ten newly designed labels by <i>Q Design</i> and lithographically printed by ISSP on non-watermarked paper on 6 October 1988. The values were: 1p, 2p, 3p, 4p, 5p, 17p, 20p, 24p, 30p, 50p and £1. No Euro currency postage dues have been produced.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Booklets">Booklets</span></h3>
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1947 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_booklet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp booklet">stamp booklet</a> contained 2/- worth of stamps showing the serial number and year of issue 30–47 with advertising on half of front</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_booklet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp booklet">Stamp booklets</a> were first put on sale on 21 August 1931. Booklet construction was a lightweight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Paperboard">cardboard</a> cover <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockstitch" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lockstitch">stitched</a> on the left-hand side with panes of stamps (usually four panes), advertising panes and interleaving bound in. Until 1956 most booklets had half of the front cover devoted to advertising, and until 1963 booklets also had serial numbers on the front cover: two numbers indicated the year of issue and serial number (in that order on the early issues but with the order reversed for later issues), until 1963 when the serial numbers ceased. Since 1983, most booklets are no longer stitched; the stamp pane, or panes, are glued into a folded card cover.</div>
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Until 1988, when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_anniversary_festivals" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish anniversary festivals">Dublin Millennium</a> booklet containing commemorative stamps was issued, all booklets contained only definitive stamps. Since then, An Post has issued both commemorative and definitive booklets, with three times as many commemorative booklets issued. In 1990 An Post issued the first booklet mixing definitive and commemorative stamps in one booklet and also on a single pane.</div>
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Many booklet stamps can be identified by one non-perforated edge, though a few are perforated on all edges. On booklets up to 1977, the printing plate construction enabled both upright and inverted watermarks in equal quantities owing to a gutter dividing rows 6 and 7 in the sheets of 12 × 10 stamps. The gutter was used for stitching during assembly, requiring rows 4–6 and 10–12 to be turned through 180 degrees so those panes could be stitched on the left of the booklet.</div>
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From around 1940 this type of 'e' watermark paper was used in Irish stamps</div>
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The Irish overprinted stamps came, as supplied from the printers in London, with a watermark of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Cypher" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Royal Cypher">Royal Cypher</a> of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George V of the United Kingdom">George V</a>. The first Irish watermark was a stylised design of the two overlapping letters 's' and 'e' making an 'se' watermark representing the name of the country <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish Free State">Saorstát Éireann</a></i>. This watermark was discontinued around 1940 when the country's name changed to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ire" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Éire">Éire</a></i> (Ireland); it was replaced with <i><b>e</b></i>watermark paper to represent Éire. Stamps of the period may have the watermark in any of several states of inversion and rotation attributable to the way the paper was fed into the printing machines.</div>
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Around 1971, the use of watermarks was discontinued by the Irish stamp-issuing authority, and current stamps issued by <i>An Post</i> do not use a watermarked paper.</div>
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Uprated postal stationery<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_envelope" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Registered envelope">registered envelope</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_censorship" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postal censorship">censored</a> by British authorities in 1942</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_stationery" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postal stationery">Postal stationery</a> have been produced in the form of registered envelopes, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_card" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postal card">postal cards</a>, envelopes, letter cards, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_wrapper" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Newspaper wrapper">newspaper wrappers</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_letter_sheet" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Air letter sheet">airletters</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Telegram">telegram</a> forms with different designs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicia_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Indicia (philately)">impressed stamp</a> applied to show that postage had been pre-paid. Except for limited early usage of previously issued British postal stationery, which were not overprinted like the postage stamps, all post-paid impressed stamps before 1984 were based on variations of a design showing the country's name in Irish, <i>Éire</i>, with appropriate values in text and numeral tablets centred around an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_harp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irish harp">Irish harp</a> motif. This was initially superseded by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamrock" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Shamrock">shamrock</a> design that later became loosely based on the logo of wavy lines and the word <i>POST</i> used by An Post from 1984. An Post has also used some designs based on postage stamps as post-paid impressed stamps on Irish postal stationery.</div>
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A few early issued items were embossed but generally the post-paid impressed stamps were typographed. The Revenue Stamping Branch, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Castle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dublin Castle">Dublin Castle</a>, applied the impressed indicia until 1984, when An Post employed the typographic printing method.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_stationery" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postal stationery">Postal stationery</a> envelope with a 6d post-paid impression paying the domestic <i>printed matter</i> rate in 1970 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youghal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Youghal">Youghal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Cork" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="County Cork">County Cork</a>.</div>
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At independence, a King George V 5 pence registered envelope and 1 shilling telegram form were printed in green for use in Ireland until domestic products became available. Irish telegram forms were only produced in 1/- and 1/6 values. Registered envelopes have appeared in many values and sizes. The printed (but non-stamped) registered envelopes were produced by private firms and stored by the Irish post office until needed, so envelopes from former periods, showing out-dated fees in the text, often received an impressed stamp for the current postal rate, creating many subtypes for collectors. Other products have carried post-paid imprint, such as commemorative and special issue postcards, including a series of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Day" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="St. Patrick's Day">St. Patrick's Day</a> cards issued annually since 1984.</div>
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Up to 1987, airletters (also known as aérogrammes) were produced without any fee applied and were available free from post offices upon payment of the appropriate rate in force for the postage stamp purchased to mail the airletter. Most airletters with a pre-paid indicia have been sold at a small premium over the then-current aérogramme postal rate.</div>
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Known as the <i>stamping privilege</i>, companies, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Voluntary association">associations</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuals" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Individuals">individuals</a> were permitted to submit their own designed and pre-printed envelopes, cards, letter sheets, etc., to the Irish Post Office for impressing with an official post-paid indicia. Window envelopes were popular for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_matter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Printed matter">printed matter</a> rate mail. The most prolific user was the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Supply_Board" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Electricity Supply Board">Electricity Supply Board</a> which used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_meter#Electromechanical_meters" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Electricity meter">meter reading</a> and appointment cards for over forty years. Stamped-to-order postal stationery users included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackrock_College" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Blackrock College">Blackrock College</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3ras_Iompair_%C3%89ireann" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Córas Iompair Éireann">Córas Iompair Éireann</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esso" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Esso">Esso</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Ireland)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Great Northern Railway (Ireland)">Great Northern Railway</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Player_%26_Sons" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="John Player & Sons">John Player & Sons</a>, Dublin. No stamped-to-order registered envelopes are known. Apparently An Post have withdrawn the <i>stamping privilege</i> without any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_notice" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Public notice">public notice</a>, because stamped-to-order postal stationery has seldom been seen since An Post took control of the Irish Post Office in 1984, with only five users recorded by Jung. Between 1963 and 2000 a few philatelically influenced items are known produced by six users.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Post" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Post">An Post</a>'s Philatelic Bureau is in the<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office_(Dublin)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="General Post Office (Dublin)">General Post Office</a> in Dublin</div>
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Newly issued Irish postage stamps are available from the Philatelic Bureau of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Post" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="An Post">An Post</a> in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office_(Dublin)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="General Post Office (Dublin)">Dublin, General Post Office</a>. Commemorative and special issue stamps are usually available for one year from the date of issue. Until the mid-1960s the Irish stamp-issuing policy was very conservative, with only a few new ones each year; up to four or five commemoratives, usually of two values, plus the occasional updated, or new, definitives. During the 1970s and beyond, the quantity produced rose considerably.</div>
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Some collectors try to acquire a basic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Collecting">collection</a> of the more common stamps from 1922 onwards, though that can be difficult now due to the quantity issued. Many collectors concentrate on one type of stamp, such as definitives or commemoratives, or even one issue, such as Gerl definitives. The First Day covers, especially commemoratives with full sets affixed, are popular though the older issues are harder to find because less than a million of the high value stamps were printed in the early years (1929–1940s) for several issues, a far lower number than the 20-plus millions printed for most of the low values during the same period.</div>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overprint" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Overprint">overprints</a>, which proved very popular during their early years, are a complex topic giving an advanced collector a great philatelic challenge.</div>
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I've been busily listing AUSTRALIA over the last few weeks with a lot of new items appearing on the website. Although Australia does issue a lot of stamps the domestic market is massive for both casual and serious collectors, and face values are usually reasonably low. </div>
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I've been mainly listing more recent issues but some older material has also recently gone on. I do find that these all sell pretty quickly, though I am starting to build a decent stock of many issues at last!</div>
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Why not treat yourself to some of these, or perhaps a <a href="http://www.sdcollectables.co.uk/australia-packets-2079-c.asp">packet</a>?</div>
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I'm currently busy listing Iceland, mainly 1970s to recent used. These are particularly nice issues, well designed and printed and generally inexpensive.</div>
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Regular mail service in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> was first established by a charter of 13 May 1776, and on 1 January 1873, Iceland issued its first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Postage stamp">postage stamps</a>. The design was the same as for the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danish_numeral_issue&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Danish numeral issue (page does not exist)">Danish numeral issue</a> of the time (numeral of value surmounted by a crown all inside an oval), denominated with values ranging from 2 to 16 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilling_(Scandinavian_monetary_unit)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Skilling (Scandinavian monetary unit)">skilling</a>, and inscribed <i>ÍSLAND</i>. All are scarce or rare, and used copies are especially hard to find.</div>
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20 aurar, 1882 (used at<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vopnafj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vopnafjörður">Vopnafjörður</a>?)</div>
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25 aurar "Í Gildi", 1902</div>
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In 1902 the numeral stamps were officially withdrawn and declared invalid for postage, since a new set depicting King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX_of_Denmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Christian IX of Denmark">Christian IX</a> was to be issued. But then the Minister of Iceland changed his mind for reasons which are still unclear and had the numerals reissued, overprinted <b>Í GILDI / '02--'03</b> in red or black, the overprint indicating that they were still valid. While some of the overprints are common, costing the collector less than a US$ or euro, others are among the great rarities of Icelandic philately. There are also many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invert_error" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Invert error">inverts</a> and typographical errors to be found.</div>
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In 1906 King Christian died, and so in 1907 a new series of stamps came out, featuring overlapping profiles of Christian IX and King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_VIII_of_Denmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frederick VIII of Denmark">Frederick VIII</a>.</div>
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1911 saw Iceland's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Commemorative stamp">commemorative stamps</a>, a set honoring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Sigur%C3%B0sson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jón Sigurðsson">Jón Sigurðsson</a> on the 100th anniversary of his birth. In February of the following year, a set was issued with Frederick's silhouette. Although Frederick died in May 1912, no new stamps were issued until 1915, when another set of the 1907 design was issued in new colors.</div>
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King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Christian X of Denmark">Christian X</a> first appeared on Icelandic stamps in a new set of 1920. Periodic stamp shortages plagued the postal service during the 1920s, and locally surcharged stamps were produced in 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1929, and 1930. The first pictorial, non-portrait stamps were issued in 1925, a set of five showing views of Iceland. Iceland's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Airmail">airmail</a> stamp was issued in 1928; it was produced by overprinting a crude image of an airplane on a regular 10-aurar stamp.</div>
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In 1930, Iceland celebrated the 1000th anniversary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Althing">Althing</a> with an attractive series of 15 regular and 5 airmail stamps featuring a wide variety of historical, mythological, and scenic images. In 1928 Icelandic authorities received a proposal from the 'Society of the Friends of Iceland' <i>Verein der Islandsfreunde</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Austria">Austria</a>, proposing to produce these stamps as a gift to Iceland for the Millenary celebrations. Against the advice of the Head Postmaster, <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sigur%C3%B0ur_Briem&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #a55858; text-decoration: none;" title="Sigurður Briem (page does not exist)">Sigurður Briem</a>, the Icelandic government accepted the offer to produce 813,000 kronur's worth of stamps, 600,000 kronur's worth of which were to go to Iceland, and the rest to the Society for its trouble. Iceland's share of the stamps were delivered in December 1929, but in 1930 it became apparent that a fraud had been committed and a much larger than authorised number of stamps had been produced, by the insertion of the figure '1' before the value in the print order. Police investigations had not been completed before the outbreak of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a>, and were not resumed afterwards.</div>
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In May 1931, stamps were overprinted <b>Zeppelin / 1931</b> for use on mail sent via the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Airship">airship</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin">Graf Zeppelin</a></i>, which visited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a> on 1 July. The zeppelin did not actually land, there being no facilities, but it got low enough to pass mail bags up and down.</div>
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Also in 1931, a new issue came out depicting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullfoss" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gullfoss">Gullfoss</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Waterfall">waterfall</a>. In addition, stamps of the 1920 issue, but with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_(philately)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vignette (philately)">vignette</a> of the king much more finely engraved, started appearing periodically, through 1937.</div>
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Iceland's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-postal_stamp" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Semi-postal stamp">semi-postal stamps</a> appeared in 1933. The subjects of the three stamps depicted categories of recipients; rescue workers, children, and the elderly.</div>
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In 1938 a dramatic series featured images of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysir" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Geysir">Geysir</a>, the namesake of all other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyser" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Geyser">geysers</a>.</div>
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Iceland again honored Jon Sigurðsson on its issue marking the independent republic established on 17 June 1944 (and again on the 150th anniversary of his birth on 17 June 1961 and the centenary of the deaths of Sigurðsson and his wife, Ingibjorg Einarsdóttir, in 1979).</div>
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Hekla eruption of 1947 on Icelandic 25-aurar stamp of 1948</div>
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In 1948, the eruption of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Volcano">volcano</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hekla">Hekla</a> was marked by another set of dramatic images.</div>
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Since independence, Iceland has pursued a relatively restrained stamp-issuing policy, bringing out about 20 new stamps each year. There are annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Europe">Europa</a> issues, and sets depicting local scenery, flora, and fauna, as well as heritage and the works of local artists.</div>
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<b>Iceland</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nordic countries">Nordic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_country" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Island country">island country</a> between the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="North Atlantic">North Atlantic</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Arctic Ocean">Arctic Ocean</a>. It has a population of 329,100 and an area of 103,000 km<sup style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1;">2</sup> (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a>. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_island" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Volcanic island">volcanically</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_(geology)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Geothermal (geology)">geologically active</a>. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_field" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lava field">lava fields</a>, mountains and glaciers, while many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="River">glacial rivers</a> flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gulf Stream">Gulf Stream</a> and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Arctic Circle">Arctic Circle</a>.</div>
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According to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landn%C3%A1mab%C3%B3k" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Landnámabók">Landnámabók</a></i>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_Iceland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Settlement of Iceland">settlement of Iceland</a> began in 874 CE when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> chieftain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ing%C3%B3lfr_Arnarson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Ingólfr Arnarson">Ingólfr Arnarson</a> became the first permanent settler on the island.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-tomasson_12-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland#cite_note-tomasson-12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup> In the following centuries, mainly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegians" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Norwegians">Norwegians</a> and to a smaller extent other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavians</a> settled Iceland, bringing with them <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrall" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Thrall">thralls</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaels" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Gaels">Gaelic</a>origin. From 1262 to 1814, Iceland was ruled by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Norway">Norway</a> and afterwards by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>. The country became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%E2%80%93Icelandic_Act_of_Union" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Danish–Icelandic Act of Union">independent in 1918</a> and a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_the_Republic_of_Iceland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Founding of the Republic of Iceland">republic in 1944</a>.</div>
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Until the 20th century, Iceland relied largely on fishing and agriculture. Industrialisation of the fisheries and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a> aid following <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a> brought prosperity and Iceland became one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the world. In 1994, Iceland became party to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="European Economic Area">European Economic Area</a>, which supported diversification into economic and financial services.</div>
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Affected by the ongoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Financial crisis of 2007–08">worldwide financial crisis</a>, the nation's entire banking system <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%9311_Icelandic_financial_crisis" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis">systemically failed</a> in October 2008, leading to a severe depression, substantial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Icelandic_financial_crisis_protests" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests">political unrest</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Icesave dispute">Icesave dispute</a>, and the institution of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_control" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Capital control">capital controls</a>. The economy has since made a significant recovery, in large part due to a surge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Iceland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Tourism in Iceland">tourism</a>.</div>
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Except for the capital controls, Iceland generally has a free-market economy with relatively low taxes compared to other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Co-operation_and_Development" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development">OECD</a> countries. It maintains a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Nordic model">Nordic social welfare system</a> that provides <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Universal health care">universal health care</a> and tertiary education for its citizens. Iceland ranks highly in economic, political and social stability and equality. In 2013, it was ranked as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">13th most-developed country</a> in the world by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Human Development Index">United Nations' Human Development Index</a>. Iceland runs almost completely on renewable energy.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Iceland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Culture of Iceland">Icelandic culture</a> is founded upon the nation's Scandinavian heritage. Most Icelanders are descendants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> and Gaelic (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Celts">Celtic</a>) settlers. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="North Germanic languages">North Germanic language</a>, is descended from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> and is closely related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Faroese language">Faroese</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_dialects" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Norwegian dialects">West Norwegian dialects</a>. The country's cultural heritage includes traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_cuisine" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Icelandic cuisine">Icelandic cuisine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_literature" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Icelandic literature">Icelandic literature</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagas_of_Icelanders" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sagas of Icelanders">medieval sagas</a>. Iceland has the smallest population of any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Member states of NATO">NATO member</a> and is the only one with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_armed_forces" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="List of countries without armed forces">no standing army</a>, its lightly armed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Coast_Guard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Icelandic Coast Guard">coast guard</a> being in charge of defence.</div>
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There's a whole new world out there of strange alternatives to our usual philatelic universe! Revenues, cinderellas, poster stamps etc etc. </div>
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Some are catalogued in depth, others need some real research. Barefoot do an excellent range of catalogues, but there are still large areas not properly catalogued. The standard comprehensive work is Fournier, but the most recent catalogue is 1908!! Early collectors collected all sorts of stamps, including revenues, but over time most collectors have concentrated on the postal issues. Gibbons have just recently started rolling out listings of telegraph stamps, and there are specialised catalogues (often of just one part of the world) of railway stamps and other postal services.</div>
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New GB stamps seem to be getting harder and harder to find! I still get a small amount in but the days of having 100s if not 1000s of the lower value commemoratives to hand are long gone! These days I'm lucky to have more than one, and they generally sell as soon as they are listed on the <a href="http://www.sdcollectables.co.uk/gb-commemoratives-used-2798-c.asp">website</a>!</div>
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Not so many years ago you could buy bundleware (ie 100 stamps) of recent commemoratives for around 20p. These days even the commoner Christmas stamp low values sell quickly at 60p or more each.</div>
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A very popular collecting area is the Faroe Islands, which lie to the north of the Shetlands. They are Danish islands but have a large amount of self rule and their own language.</div>
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Stamps are well designed and all are appropriate to the islands, with just a few issues each year. They are also surprisingly cheap in used condition considering how few people live on the islands!</div>
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With the latest issue from the PO showing various British seaside scenes this stamp harks back to 2008 when another series was produced.</div>
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This is the die-cut version from the booklet issued on 13.5.2008. Although only catalogued at 80p this is the first I've ever found!</div>
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I'm currently listing mainly modern <a href="http://www.sdcollectables.co.uk/gb-commemoratives-used-2798-c.asp">GB commemoratives</a> which are getting harder and harder to find. They sell amazingly fast with about half of them selling on the same day they are listed! We are now offering postage/packing and insurance at just 50p anywhere worldwide!</div>
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If you haven't visited the website lately why not take a look? A LOT of new material has been added recently ranging from GB through Commonwealth to modern Europe.</div>
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