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British Guiana 1 Cent Magenta - Trivia

 
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Posted 08/10/2010   04:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Ryan to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I found this 1947 newspaper clipping while rooting through another pile of stamps - I had never heard this story before. One for Rodney's archive ...

Ryan


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Posted 08/10/2010   05:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
great!
those critters been at lunch again.
Great yarn, can you imagine the heart rate monitor.
LondonBus saw that very same fellow at London 2010
(probably not the same guard though)

...and right back at ya!
see what thay were complaining about way back,
and such a beautiful stamp too.

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Posted 08/10/2010   05:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

British Guiana Magenta! Spotlights?

I wonder if they were aware what light can do to a stamp
back then?

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