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Posted 02/11/2011   10:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add TravelBugAntiques to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

I ask because the paper is noticeably different from the other Poland stamps.



Thanks.

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Posted 02/11/2011   10:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
SG0182 (1922) T0024 40f arms brown

Love those fasces stamps.

Gibbos are quite mute as to the paper,
the overprinted issue of 1920 was on thick wove paper,
The issue of 1922 as yours is, paper is not commented on.

The series to which yours belong was used in the Upper Silesia
district incorporated into Poland as a result of the plebiscite
that may explain the different paper
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Edited by rod222 - 02/11/2011 10:23 pm
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Posted 02/11/2011   10:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
One of the ironies of US coinage is we had the fasces on the back of our dimes all throughout the war we fought the fascists.
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Posted 02/12/2011   02:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I keep a rag tag collection of fasces on stamps,
I think in those times, they were just considered
icons of less radical forms of government without the stigma we put on them.
Those little icons hide on quite a lot of countries stamps.
They are borne by the huge chair that Lincoln lounges in
in that huge sculpture.
They have an interesting history back to Etruria.


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Edited by rod222 - 02/12/2011 02:17 am
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Posted 02/12/2011   08:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
For those (including me) to whom the word fasces is new I give you the Wikipedia definition and link:

Fasces (pronounced /ˈfæsiːz/, a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle"[1]) are a bundle of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power and jurisdiction, and/or "strength through unity".[2] Fasces frequently occur as a charge in heraldry, and should not be confused with the related term, fess, which in French heraldry is called a fasce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

Or from Dictionary dot com
fas·ces
   /ˈfæsiz/ Show Spelled[fas-eez] Show IPA
"noun ( usually used with a singular verb )
a bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade projecting, borne before Roman magistrates as an emblem of official power.

Many thanks to Rod for helping to extend out vocabulary and knowledge of the world around us.
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Posted 02/12/2011   08:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Michel just says "thin to thick paper".
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Nigel
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Posted 02/12/2011   10:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add TravelBugAntiques to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, Great information!! Thanks so much!!
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