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Posted by printsmurf
 - December 20, 2024, 12:05:58 PM
Issued on 20 February 1968 for the centenary of "Amrita Bazar Patrika" newspaper                 (India)



Amrita Bazar Patrika was first published on 20 February 1868. It shut down in 1991.


Posted by printsmurf
 - December 15, 2024, 03:11:18 PM
First Day Cover for post 452 on page 31


Posted by printsmurf
 - December 15, 2024, 01:25:13 PM
Issued on 12 November 2018 in a series' My Stamps 2018'    Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Paper Limited      (India)



Printed in sheets of 12 with se-tenant labels that customers can choose to submit images for printing.

Posted by printsmurf
 - November 24, 2024, 02:23:11 PM
Issued on 12 October 2012 in the 26th series of stamp days                       (Italy)

PRODUZIONE CARTE VALORI = PRODUCTION OF SECURITY CARDS


Posted by printsmurf
 - November 03, 2024, 01:58:24 PM
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)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 11, 2024, 01:14:20 PM
Issued on 1 June 1971    Bicentennial of Finnish Press                                (Finland)



First Day Cover

Posted by printsmurf
 - October 11, 2024, 12:50:17 PM
Issued on 14 June 2022      Bicentenary of Publication of "Mumbai Samachar"                (India)



First Day Cover


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 11, 2024, 12:16:13 PM
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.
Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 01:24:51 PM
Issued on 20 December 1999 in a series 'Important Chinese inventions'     Movable Type           (Haiti)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 01:21:36 PM
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)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 01:18:26 PM
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


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 12:17:54 PM
Issued on 1 August 1959  -  early example of movable type in Korea                (North Korea)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 11:49:23 AM
Issued on 20 July 1999  -  Movable type used in China 1050                (Togo)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 11:47:52 AM
Issued on 12 October 1999 in a mini-sheet  'Science and Technology in Ancient China'    (Liberia)


Posted by printsmurf
 - October 10, 2024, 11:46:17 AM
Issued on 18 August 2005 to celebrate 'Four Great Inventions of Ancient China'     (Hong Kong)

The first stamp shown is titled 'Papermaking' and shows Ts'ai Lun



This next stamp leads us neatly into the stamps I have posted in the Movable Type thread and is titled 'Printing' and shows Bi Sheng


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