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To: kosciusko51
That worked out so well that they issued a set of postage stamps to memorialize the achievement:

As I recall, there were three of them in the series. But the above was the only one I was able to get when I was a boy over a half century ago . . . and the stamps were almost as old back then.
23 posted on 02/19/2021 2:11:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Now I understand why the stamps are so rare. They only sold less than 200,000 of them TOTAL and destroyed the rest. This was 1930, so only about 7% of the pricey stamps printed were sold. Just wow!
25 posted on 02/19/2021 2:22:40 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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