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Issued on 15 September 1981 to celebrate 150 years of the first printing house in Serbia  (Yugoslavia)



First Day Cover



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Issued on 20 October 1966 this airmail stamp celebrates the 100th anniversary of "Journal Officiel" Printing Works     (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon)



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Issued on 14 October 1966 on the 50th anniversary of the National Printing House.  (Uruguay)




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Issued on 21 November 1985 for a philatelic exhibition  (Ecuador)



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Issued on 29 May 2019 on the centenary of the war of independence  (Turkey)






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Issued on 13 November 1975 in a series 'Americana'  (U.S.A.)



First Day Cover


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Issued on 11 December 1987 on the 175th Anniversary of the Curaçao Courant Printing Company. Not many stamps show lead type and a composing stick.      (Netherlands Antilles)




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Issued on 28 February 1985   'Freedom of Speech'   (Costa Rica)



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Issued on 20 June 1968                     (Venezuela)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (March 28, 1750 – July 14, 1816), was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary. 



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Another stamp showing type in a composing stick.  Issued on 21 August 1997 in a series 'Methods of Communication'    (Guernsey)



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Issued on 30 July 1964. 150th Death Anniversary of Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813), type designer.  (Italy)



Accompanying First Day Cover also shows a printing press




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Issued on 4 April 2009 in a series 'World Heritage'.  The Plantin-Moretus house.    (Belgium)



On 1 July 1942 Belgium had issued a stamp showing Christophe Plantin.




On 31 May 1944 Belgium issued  a stamp showing Jan Moretus-Plantin. Son-in-law of Christophe Plantin.







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Post number 3 of this thread features Georgi Dimitrov in a stamp issued on 19 March 1972.  He also appears on a stamp issued on 9 May 1972 on the 90th anniversary of his birth.    (Bulgaria)



First Day Cover is just an enlargement of image on stamp





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Issued on 2 December 2019 to mark the Centenary of the Imprenta Distrital.    (Colombia)



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Issued on 25 October 1954.      (Liberia)



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