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Cees, you provide a wonderful and beautiful description here of the historical developments surrounding the formation of the Republic of Indonesia. You yourself indicate that some stamps were not generally available. They are, of course, always collectible, as everyone is free to collect whatever they wish. Nevertheless, I consider a stamp to be a stamp only if it has been used for postage. Otherwise, it is and remains merely a piece of printed matter, whether of high quality or not.
Cees, I also think it is a wonderful overview once again! Given the number of stamps in the article, clickable but smaller images of the stamps were chosen for placement. After clicking, the stamps are displayed larger, so that the details are still visible.
@ Stamp Blog Readers: Have you noticed this, and what do you think of it?
'@Lia
If you pull these kinds of tricks on Bate's stories, they become truly unreadable 🙂
Keep it to a manageable size! Or will you be charged based on BitTransfer???
‘@Rein
Cost is absolutely not an issue here. Overview is. If you wish, you can always click through to the stamps and the image will be larger than it was previously in the blog.
It's a shame you're bringing up Bate's stories; I don't think that's relevant here.
'@Lia,
That is indeed handy if, as in the article above, you have multiple stamps side by side. If there are 1 or 2 stamps on a line, I would prefer to see them aligned across the full width of the column, so you don't have to click extra.
'@Lia
When it comes to the length of the story, yes, and then I would prefer to see every stamp at full size without having to click first and then jump back to the text….
Having to do this more than 40 times is much more annoying than having to scroll through a long text..
'@Toon: do you mean only stamps on used letters etc., or also stamps and postal items with the intention and in any case the possibility of actually throwing them in a mailbox, having them delivered by the postman etc.
‘@Dolores
In the presence of a postal service, a postage stamp is an a priori valid piece of paper for franking, which after some time turns out to have been used for franking within that postal service, or not.
The philatelic debate about mint versus used is one that resurfaces every so often, but has nothing to do with whether a stamp is a postage stamp or not…
Still, I only consider a stamp a stamp if it has been used for postage. Otherwise, it is and remains merely a piece of printed matter, of varying quality.
I agree with Rein's comment.
It is a pity that the third series of 2 pictured features a false print. For more information, I refer you to the website http://www.dainippon.nl