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    Aspects of France

    Apr 10, 2020 3 minutes

    Creating and displaying a collection of the stamps of one country in chronological order can be a formidable task, particularly if the country concerned has issued several thousand stamps. An alternative is to collect and display stamps of one country as a series of individual areas of interest. This article illustrates how this may be done in the case of France.

    Red Cross

    France has issued many stamps surcharged to support the Red Cross.

    There are two notable areas for collectors. The first is the series from 1940 until 1983, during which a pair of Red Cross

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