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Countries Who Don't Put Their Names On Stamps

 
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Posted 11/26/2015   7:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Tim H to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
A post yesterday reminded me of a question which I am sure has been pinged around this forum before: which countries don't routinely put their names on stamps? There are any number who didn't to start with: Prussia, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Brazil, Uruguay, Iran to name but a few, but as far as I can make out there are only two who didn't / dont: Imperial Russia and Great Britain.

Can anyone think of any others?
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Posted 11/26/2015   8:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
When I started collecting I was told, or I read somewhere that stamps of Great Britain are the only ones allowed to go without the country's identification as a tribute to the fact that the postage stamp was 'born' there. The issuing country's name on postage stamps is supposed to be a UPU rule.
As I indicated on TimH's other post I believe that postage due stamps do not carry this requirement, hence these stamps generally are not identified with the issuing country's name.

Peter
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Posted 11/26/2015   9:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jarnick to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
And ... the United States (Pilgrim Tercentenary set of 1920, Scott #548-50).
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Posted 11/26/2015   11:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BeeSee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a thread I started a few years back :

https://goscf.com/t/7401#7401
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