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Issued on 19 March 1962 to celebrate 80 years of the Bulgarian State Printing Office. Georgi Dimitrov was a compositor and the stamp shows him with composing stick in hand He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria, from 1946 to 1949.

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Issued on 19 June 1963 to commemorate the centennial of the Hebrew Press in Palestine.       (Israel) 
     
   
                                 
Issued in sheets of 16 each stamp shows a nineteenth century compositor at work. The background of the whole sheet shows a page from the first issue in 1863 of Halbanon newspaper, giving each stamp a different background.

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Issued on 15 June 1943 when Slovakia declared itself independent of Czechoslovakia.
Newspaper stamps. The N stands for Noviny (Newspaper)

As the name suggests, these stamps were used to pay the postage on newspapers sent through the mail.

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Issued by the Netherlands on 4 March 2003 to celebrate 300 years of the print firm Johan Enschede.

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Issued by Croatia on 7 February 1997 to commemorate the 600th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg.