The stamp a minister tried to stop
A 1970 British stamp whose ghostly, blurred runners so alarmed a government minister that he tried to keep them off the post — because the blur looked to him like an empire fading away.
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Once a Year an Indian Stamp Is Designed by a Child. In 1983 the Child Painted an Adult.
Once a year India hands a stamp over to a child. In 1983 the child filled it with a grown-up, and put the only child in the picture at half her height.
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World Philatelic Exhibition 1989 Stamp: India Sent Its Mail to an Exhibition
Most stamps preserve history by depicting it. This one preserves history by reproducing the marks history leaves behind. The 1989 World Philatelic Exhibition stamp turned postal markings into the central image of a celebration.
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The Window That Only Survives on Paper
Rippl-Rónai designed in glass, and almost none of it survives. A 40-fillér Hungarian stamp from 1972 may be the most durable copy of a window nobody can quite locate.
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Cuba’s Hidden 1982 Lighthouse for an Island No One Lives On
A 1982 Cuban stamp, a steel lighthouse built in the shadow of a war’s end, and an island that was never meant for people at all…
