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Hi Stamp Gurus, I can't seem to find anything about this special little piece of paper. I can find each of these stamps but never together and certainly never together in this commemorative way. Has anyone seen something like this before? I'd love to know if it's something special. Thanks! Erica 
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Just a stamp dealer's packaging of a couple of cheap stamps - note the 20c price. |
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I hope I'm making a reply in the correct way (I'm new to Stamp Community). Thanks for the note about my photo and question - I appreciate you taking the time. It's also sad to read that this isn't a cool, rare little document. I'm new to stamps and it's difficult to disregard a stamp because of it's low value when it's put into a special format of some kind. I can easily convince myself that the low value isn't as important because of the stamp's other characteristics/environment. Alas, I'll keep your sentiment in mind going forward. |
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You need to remember (or imagine) what stamp collecting was like seventy years ago. It was omnipresent. Stamps would be for sale in all sorts of outlets, often packaged, like yours, with an enticing message to the child looking at them. |
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| Edited by GeoffHa - 08/19/2024 07:57 am |
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EricaMontana In my eye, the stamps you posted are very nice stamps to look at. Are they cheap? yes, are they valuable? no.
However, I like the way the stamps are presented in this old-style dealers format and, if it were me, I would put this in like a souvenir sheet style mount with others or next to others that are similar, then I would put it in a stock book or create a nice page in an album to display it. Who knows you may find others like this along the way in your collecting. Remember, you can make a nice quality presentation of any old or new stamp if you put a little creativity and thought behind displaying it.
These are just some thoughts on how to turn a regular common stamp into something that can look outstanding by changing your perspective on it. A stamp doesn't have to be worth something to look great in your album. |
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| Edited by Bobcat126 - 08/19/2024 1:18 pm |
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Thanks for the advice and information. I'm an accountant by trade so my brain naturally turns everything in my life into a value of some kind. It's been difficult to think about stamps outside of their fiscal worth. However, I have four binders that contain covers from the1890s through the 1960s - some of them are just covers and have no letter/paper inside. However, some of them do have the original mail inside the cover and I think this will be the thing I'll mostly collect. I'm inherently nosy and my god...the hours pass quickly when looking at those covers. I love to see where they came from, where they went, the purpose of the mailing, and of course, the stamp. |
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Hi Erica, thank you for posting these two examples, indeed they are not very rare or expensive stamps but the pairing is interesting because they are part of the post-Chaco war, pre-Revolutionary period and have a lot of context behind.
President Hertzog (an MD) was centrist political figure who came to power after a left-leaning nationalist military government was deposed in 1946 -the event being celebrated in the orange stamp- and curiously the overprint commemorates another event (a short-lasted civil war) that ended his tenure.
Guess who did Juan D. Peron support? |
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