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TIMBRE CLASSIQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 1978-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
CONT

Classical stamps as a general rule are the postage stamps issued prior to 1870; they are the antiquities of postage stamp issues.

OBS

for "primitive" : Classical stamps are sometimes called "primitives"

Key term(s)
  • classic stamp
  • primitive stamp
  • primitive postage stamp

French

Domaine(s)
  • Timbres et oblitération
CONT

On donne l'étiquette de "classiques" aux premières émissions qui ont eu lieu dans chaque pays, par opposition aux "modernes", dont l'ère commence avec la génération des émissions dentelées, aux environs de 1875.

Spanish

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