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IS FUN
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ANSWERS TO OUR FUN QUIZ
QUESTION 1: 1840
QUESTION 2: Postal Union Congress.
QUESTION 3: King Farouk on the occasion of his wedding.
QUESTION 4: HMS Endeavour.
QUESTION 5: Perkins, Bacon & Co (or
Perkins, Bacon & Petch - their name until 1852).
QUESTION 6: The American Civil War. The two portraits are of Abraham Lincoln
and Jefferson Davis. The stamp is one issued by the Confederate States.
QUESTION 7: Federation Internationale de Philatelie (or in English - International
Federation of Philately)
QUESTION 8: They have all issued bilingual stamps.
QUESTION 9: France in 1859.
QUESTION 10: A strip flush with the surface of the printing plate on each side of the plate
produced the lines. They were to prevent wear on the edges of the plate.
Incidentally, this is the scarce 1911 3d grey on lemon variety.
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