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Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Elvis lives! (On Burkina Faso postage stamps)

Mongolia and the X-Men. Chechnya and Groucho Marx. What were these stamp-pandering countries thinking?

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  • Monday, December 3, 2007 03:37 PM

    Topicals

    Quite a few of these countries authorize stamps at least partly intended for topical collectors - folks who collect cars, or trains, or X-Men on stamps. Finding a stamp of the type discussed in the article that's properly used in the postal system of the nation in question is quite a challenge for collectors of that nation's stamps.

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