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Faces are so much the subject matter of stamps, how about showing your favorite "face" from your stamps? I'll start with the beautiful Monaco/United States joint issue of Grace Kelly.  |
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Sure, start with Grace Kelly. How is anyone supposed to top that. I Can't think of anyone. |
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Sure, start with Grace Kelly And a Slania engraving, at that. Hopeless.  So, I'll go off in a different direction. Topic doesn't say the face has to be beautiful...just a favorite face from a stamp.  |
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 (not mine, obviously...this stamp is on the rarer side of the ledger, and sold for big dollars) |
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Does anyone notice the subtle differences in the US stamp and the one from Monaco. |
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| Edited by rohumpy - 09/07/2010 06:18 am |
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Does anyone notice the subtle differences in the US stamp and the one from Monaco. I think the U.S. could have at least used her correct title, "Princess Grace". Steve  |
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I think the U.S. could have at least used her correct title, "Princess Grace". Ah, but she wouldn't be Grace Kelly then, would she? And that is how we Americans (those who have seen her films, many times  ) do remember her. |
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| Edited by smauggie - 09/07/2010 08:01 am |
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not mine, yet. but on my short list of wants.  joint issue: Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. |
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Yes Rod, only a face a mother could love....slurrrp, slurrrp
It's also a picture of all of us, inside, when we get angry. |
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USPS was skirting a federal law that prevents foreign heads of state from appearing on stamps; therefore, she is depicted as the beloved Grace Kelly, and not as Princess Grace.
At least this is what I recall when the stamp was issued...may be urban legend, but it makes sense. The Code of Federal Regulations is available online, for anyone who has the time to give it a go...
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