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Posted 07/28/2011   3:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think together, these two make a whole.


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Posted 07/28/2011   3:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's a few more, then it's back to work.






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Posted 07/28/2011   3:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm surprised that so far no one has posted any fractional Machins.
There must be dozens of them.



Here's a couple of oldies.



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Posted 07/28/2011   9:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BlackJag to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's a Canadian 6 pence (it also has the value shown as 7 1/2 cents) and a 12 1/2 cent issue.




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Posted 07/29/2011   10:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nethryk to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Postage due stamp issued by the USA on October 29, 1930, Scott No. J69.

- nethryk


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Posted 07/30/2011   10:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's the young Prince of Wales, who grew up to be Edward VIII.


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Posted 07/30/2011   10:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Little Eddy looks like a girl.
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Posted 07/31/2011   12:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fractional



but 12 rupees was serious money a century ago - around £1 or $US5
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Posted 07/31/2011   12:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cursus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here comes the non-decimal fractionary Machin, plus the first series decimal ones:



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Posted 07/31/2011   12:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cursus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here come the 1971 fractionary Country Machins:









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Edited by Cursus - 07/31/2011 12:49 am
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Posted 08/01/2011   05:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Charkhari State, the 1943 ½ Anna red, and in a tête-bêche pair, too



(SG 37a)

Idar State, the first (½ Anna) stamp, of 1932 on cover:



(and so SG 1, of course)
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Posted 08/06/2011   7:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It suddenly occurred to me that no one has mentioned the fractional members of the US liberty series.


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Posted 08/06/2011   7:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Don't forget this US Stamp from the 1965-68 Prominent Americans Series (Scott 1279) in an unusual denomination of 1-1/4-cents:

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Posted 08/11/2011   10:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
you may read three point one, but you'll always be 3 1/10th to me.


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Posted 08/11/2011   11:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add khj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Never mind, the stamp was already posted!
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Edited by khj - 08/11/2011 11:16 pm
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