Mary Cortes

The message behind children's stamps featuring the names of famous children

Written in: Dutch • redactie • March 1 2020

In 2002, I wrote an article for the bulletin of the Association for Children's Stamps & Maximaphily (72nd edition) about children known by name on children's stamps. At the time, I arrived at the respectable number of no fewer than 55 children. To a few...

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