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Issued on 6 May 1991 for the International Stamp Exhibition "PHILANIPPON ´91"  (Grenada Grenadines)




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Issued on 25 June 1987 in a series Canada Day - Science and Technology (2nd series)      (Canada)

In the 1830's Charles Fenerty, a Nova Scotian, observed wasps chewing wood to produce paper for their nest. He experimented, and around 1838 produced the world's finest usable paper from wood.
 
Charles Fenerty was a Canadian inventor who invented the wood pulp process for papermaking, which was first adapted into the production of newsprint.



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Issued on 8 August 1990 to celebrate the Centenary of Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry      (Sweden)
Book of eight stamps

From left to right:  papermaking c.1600,    crown watermark,  Foreign newspapers using Swedish newsprint,    rolls of paper




The cover of the booklet containing eight stamps shows papermaking c.1600  ( massa och papper - pulp and paper)



First Day Cover



Stamps in greater detail










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Issued on 10 October 1977 for the EUCEPA Conference in Vienna (European Liaison Committee for Pulp and Paper)                               (Austria)

The image is the Coat of Arms of the Paper Producers.







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Issued on 27 May 1982 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Diósgyör Paper Mill      (Hungary)



The accompanying EMLÉKLAP (Celebration Card) with special postmark is dated 3 December




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Issued on 8 July 1991 to commemorate 500 years of the Polish Papermaking Industry



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Issued on 2 July 1968   Wood Processing Industry                         (Finland)



First Day Cover




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Issued on 18 February 1981 in a series 'Construction Projects of the 10th Five Year Plan'                     (USSR)   

Syktyvkar Timber Industry Complex      Roll of paper shown on right of stamp
     


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Issued on 28 May 2014 Handmade Paper Mill in Velke Losiny    (Czech Republic)



First Day Cover and card signed by the designer and engraver





Booklet of eight stamps outside cover



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Issued on 5 March 2016 in a series 'Technical Monuments - Paper Mill' - Paper Mill, Naujieji, Verkiai                (Lithuania)                   



First Day Cover



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Souvenir postcard issued on 26 July 1968 on the opening of the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój in Poland. The Paper Mill in Duszniki-Zdrój is one of the dozen surviving paper mills in Western Europe which still engage in the production of traditional, handmade paper.




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Issued on 20 December 1999 in a series 'Important Chinese Inventions'                             (Haiti)



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Issued on 15 August 1910 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colonization of Newfoundland. Papermills at Grand Falls



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Issued on 15 August 1932                                                              (Newfoundland)

Corner Brook paper Mills



Issued on 12 May 1937                 Additional issue for the Coronation of King George VI

Same image as the 1932 issue with the addition of the facing portrait of King George VI inside a crowned oval



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Issued on 1 September 1954 in a series 'Country Industry' - Paper Manufacturing             (Costa Rica)





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