Sunday Stamps - December 15, 2024

 Sunday Stamps' theme this week is The Color Red. 

First is this USA 1964 embossed cut square for the New York World's Fair 1964-1965.

Norway c1922-1926, Lion Rampant (standing on its hind legs, forelegs raised, unsheathed claws, ready for battle)

South Africa 1964
Red in two ways, the background and the bird, a Crimson Breasted Shrike. 

Japan 1914-1925 
Text at top translates as "National Fish Day."

Not a postage stamp, this is a telegraph stamp from Switzerland from the 1880s.  These stamps were used to prepay for telegraphs, showing they'd been paid, or were exempt from payment. In many counties telegraphs were paid with regular postage stamps.  In 1860 India produced the first government issued telegraph stamp. 

Germany 1923,  showing the hyperinflation affecting the currency of the Weimar Republic between 1921 and 1923.  In April 1921 this stamp would have cost .60 marks.  By October 2, 1923 it was 2,000,000, and October 10 (when this was overprinted) 5,000,000, and only continued to rise.   We think we have inflation?

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Next week is Christmas stamps! 🎅