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Estimating the stock of postwar Dutch postal stamps [PDF]
Applied Economics, 2007 This paper seeks to find an answer to the question: "How many stamps are still around, given that we know their prices at issue, the current price and the amount then issued?" For this purpose, I develop a simple statistical model, the parameters of which are estimated for over 1000 postwar Dutch stamps. One finding is that some stamps are very scarce,
Philip Hans Franses
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Evolution of Functional Hand Prostheses on the Postal Stamps [PDF]
Journal of Hand and Microsurgery, 2017 Ahmadreza Afshar
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Postal Poetry: The Significance of Stamps [PDF]
Conference Proceedings Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, 2015 Postage stamps, quickly receding in usage as we tweet our voices around the world, have for nearly 200 years been key enablers of a system that links humans by physical messages. But beyond their role as facilitators of communication, stamps themselves carry messages embedded in their usage and imagery.
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SEMI-POSTAL STAMPS AS HEALTH PROMOTION TOOLS. BREAST CANCER [PDF]
Journal of IMABIntroduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) in 2021 with a goal to reduce breast cancer (BC) mortality by 2.5% per year, saving the lives of 2.5 million women by 2040.
Petya Boncheva, Desislava Vankova
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Popularization of health in Polish philately
Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2022 The article constitutes an attempt of presenting the phenomenon of popularization of health, health protection, achievements in medicine and people connected to medicine through a postal stamp.
Marek Smoła
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The Egyptian Post Museum: a Strategic Plan to Develop and Activate its Role in Presenting the Heritage of Egypt [PDF]
المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2021 Collecting stamps and documents that record the history of post service in Egypt was credited to King Fouad who started his private collection in1866. The idea of establishing a Post Museum came up during the 10th International Postal Conference, which ...
Heba Mahmoud Saad, Sara Ragab
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The Study of Stamp Functions in Qajar and the 1st Pahlavi [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2018 The reign of Naser al-Din Shah brought upon political and social reformations in Iran. The changes that happened in the structure of the postal system was one of such reformations.
Abdollah Motevalli +1 more
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Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2022 This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between the trading post of Thule (which is the Danish name for the settlement of Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Thule Air Base) and the Cape York post
Anne Hemkendreis
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Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2021 A postage stamp is a piece of artwork which proficiently designed and printed and issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage. (Glossary of Terms, 2017).
Mahmoud Farouk Mahmoud Ameen Elfeky +1 more
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Electronic British Library Journal, 2021 In 1891 Thomas Keay Tapling bequeathed his near complete, worldwide collection of stamps and postal stationery to the British Museum Library. To celebrate the 130th anniversary of this event which created the British Library's Philatelic Collections ...
Richard Scott Morel
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