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Issued on 1 August 1959  -  early example of movable type in Korea                (North Korea)




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Issued on 5 February 1963      Library of Early Buddhist scriptures  stamp showing a 13th Century woodblock                      (South Korea)



Re-issued on 25 August 1967



Re-issued on 10 June 1969



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Issued on 4 October 1999 as part of a minisheet entitled 'Science and Technology of Ancient China'

Woodblock printing and a page from the World's oldest surviving book printed on paper
(Federated States of Micronesia)




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Issued on 20 December 1999 in a series 'Important Chinese inventions'     Movable Type           (Haiti)



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Issued on 22 November 2018 for the 110th Anniversary of Publication of Newspaper Jamanak       (Armenia)



The founders of "Jamanak" Constantinople daily newspaper, brothers Misak and Sarkis Koçunyan.


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Issued on 14 June 2022      Bicentenary of Publication of "Mumbai Samachar"                (India)



First Day Cover



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Issued on 1 June 1971    Bicentennial of Finnish Press                                (Finland)



First Day Cover



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I posted this stamp in the 'Paper & Watermark Museum, Italy - video' thread by Dave Hughes, but it should be here as well as it is a print related stamp

Issued on 16 September 1994   Paper and Watermark Museum, Fabriano                              (Italy)



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