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Issued on 12 April 1943   the fascist government newspaper 'Il Popolo Sammarinese' propaganda stamps
(Republic of San Marino)













The 30 and 50 Centesimi stamps were reissued on 1 July 1943 with an overprint - Giornata Filatelica Rimini - San Marino and a date 5 July 1943.






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Issued on 27 March 1964 in a series 'Preservation of the National Monuments and Antifascist Memorials' 
All four people depicted on the stamps were executed by Nazi Germany - Mildred Harnack was the only American woman executed on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler
(East Germany)







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Issued on 7 June 1997 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the printing of 'Gorski Vijenac'   (Yugoslavia)




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Issued on 1 March 1964 to comemorate 400 years of book printing in USSR - Ivan Fedorov, the first Russian printer
(USSR)



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Issued on 30 November 1979 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Turkish printing. Ibrahim Muteferrika, the first Turkish printer     (Turkey)




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Issued on 14 December 2018 to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Publishing of the Bible in Albanian        (Albania)



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Issued on 7 April 2006  (USA)



Issued on 30 July 1993   (USA)




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Issued on 22 November 1997 a printing press appears on a stamp honouring Vasco De Gama      (Senegal)


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Issued on 1 September 2017 to celebrate 500th anniversary of Belarusian Book Printing    (Belarus)



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Issued on 26 June 1990 in a series 'International Literacy Year'     (Jersey)



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Issued on 9 February 2006 to honor Colombian journalism, the stamp shows a moment during the printing of "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen", a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights.      (Colombia)




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Issued on 5 March 1934 to mark the 350th Death Anniversary of Ivan Fedorov (first printer)                      (Soviet Union)




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Five stamps issued on 19 March 2015 to celebrate 150 years of postage stamps in Ecuador     (Ecuador)

One stamp shows Emilia Rivadeneira who engraved the stamps and another one her father, the printer and typographer Manuel Antonio Rivadeneira Heredia. The other three each show one of the original stamps along with a printing press.











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Issued on 8 November 2011 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible   
(Cayman Islands)



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Issued on 15 September 2021 to celebrate 50 years of Peruri Security Printers    (Indonesia)



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