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All Forums Category: World Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: World Modern Stamps Mint and Used

New Austria Stamp In World's Most "Unreadable" Font

 
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wt1
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Posted 02/18/2015   8:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Could you read what this stamp says (if it were not for the solution shown)? (I looked at it for 10 minutes before I figured it out!)



http://www.linns.com/news/internati...uad%E2%80%99
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Petert4522
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This stamp was shown here some time ago in another thread. I think it is rather clever, but would the postman be able to read it?

Peter
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lithograving
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Actually to be precise the O has an umlaut which makes it Ö
and therefore the name of the country is Österreich.

It is also correct though that by adding an e after the o
therefore producing oe you get the same sound as ö.

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Actually to be precise the O has an umlaut which makes it Ö
and therefore the name of the country is Österreich.

It is also correct though that by adding an e after the o
therefore producing oe you get the same sound as ö.


Oh.

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lithograving
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O ja
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rohumpy
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I wonder if the post office would even recognize it as a stamp.
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littleriverphil
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I'm sure that the Austrian postal workers have all been talking about this stamp like we have been, probably have been seeing posters about it for the last month or so, to be sure that they reconoze the stamp.
How embarassing would that be? Use the new stamp and the postperson slaps a postage due stamp on over the new stamp.
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