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Until the early part of the present century copper was practically the only metal used for engraving. Only a limited number of impressions can be taken from a copper plate becau...

Two stamps of Prussia, issued in 1866, are usually said to be on gold-beater's skin. But they are really on a very thin tough paper which has been treated with shellac, parrafin...

Many stamps of Persia bear the lion and the sun, the arms of the country and the insignia of its highest order of nobility. It is the lion of Iran, holding in its paw the sceptr...