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Issued on 28 June 2007 for the 120th anniversary of "El Espectador" Newspaper          (Colombia)

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Issued on 13 September 1977 for the 90th anniversary of the newspaper El Espectador         (Colombia)                         

Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (San Pedro, Antioquia, 1854 – Medellín, 1919) was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.

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Issued on 5 March 2018    Handicrafts (Series II) - Bookbinder      (Liechtenstein)

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Issued 0n 9 December 2010 for the centenary of El Telegrafo newspaper          (Uruguay)

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Issued on 3 March 1977 - 100 Years of Népszava, Newspaper of Hungarian Trade Unions            (Hungary)

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Issued on 15 September 1979 to celebrate 150 years of the newspaper "Courrier de l'Escaut"   (Belgium)



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The chap on the stamp is Barthélémy Du Mortier (1797-1878), founder of the Newspaper in 1824

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Some more newspaper stamps from Belgium

Issued on 6 November 1993 for the 50th anniversary of "Faux Soir"



Issued on 12 December 1988 for the centenary of the newspaper "Het Laatste Nieuws"

   

Issued on 2 November 1991 for the centenary of the newspaper "Het Volk"

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Issued on 1 January 1974 for the 50th anniversary of "Krasnaya Zvezda" newspaper       (USSR)

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Issued on 20 April 1985   Jean de Bast (1883-1975) - Draughtsman and Engraver               (Belgium)

Jean De Bast was a Belgian postage stamps draughtsman and engraver.
Between 1926 and 1967, he engraved more than one hundred postage stamps for the National Postage Stamps Printing-house in Mechelen.

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Issued on 10 July 1980 to celebrate 250 years of the First Book of Daily Bible Readings.  (West Germany)

The Daily Texts is a daily devotional guide published yearly since 1731. It is the oldest such guide in continuous use. Begun in Germany as a daily oral tradition, it soon became a regularly printed set of texts for each day of the year.

The texts are chosen yearly in Germany for use in all editions of the Daily Texts throughout the world.
 


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Issued on 14 February 1991 to celebrate Friedrich Spee von Lagenfeld                 (West Germany)

He was the author of "Cautio Criminalis".The title page is shown on the left of the stamp.
At first published anonymous in 1631 the "Cautio Criminalis" questioned the legality of the witch-prosecution.

In a later version he sharply condemned the witch-hunt as illegal and un-christian.
His book convinced Queen Christina of Sweden to stop witch-hunts. Most other countries in Europe followed soon after.



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Issued on 14 October 1989 to honour Italian Industry- Arnoldo Mondadori                   (Italy)

In 1907, Arnoldo Mondadori founded one of Italy's largest printing and publishing houses.



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Issued on 19 March 1994 for the centenary of Le Jour - Le Courrier newspaper             (Belgium)



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