Stamp Collector

The battle against Malaria

he most obvious stamps related to malaria are likely those issued during the United Nations sponsored malaria eradication campaign of the early 1960s. Many collectors assemble these issues in attractive collections featuring stamps from somewhere in the neighbourhood of 125 countries. A slightly broader collection would include a number of slogan meters, slogan cancels, and slogan hand stamps used during the same campaign period. Going even broader, a collection might boast privately produced stamps and labels. These groups of philatelic material represent the most common content of a typical malaria collection, but a plethora of additional material is available

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