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Building Pakistan postage, Rs.2 (two rupees), orange, stamp, 1961

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country: Pakistan postage topic: Building theme: Buildings type of stamp: postal stamp color: Orange year: 1961 postal value: Rs. 2 (2 rupees) designer: ? What building is depicted on the stamp? More from the same series: Building, red, R.1 (1961) Building, red, R.1 Service (1961) Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Building Pakistan postage SERVICE (Regular without WM Series Die I), R.1 (one rupee), red, stamp, 1961

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country: Pakistan postage topic: Building (SERVICE, Regular without WM Series Die I) theme: Buildings type of stamp: postal stamp color: Red year: 1961 postal value: R. 1 (1 rupee) designer: ? What building is depicted on the stamp? More from the same series: Building, red, R.1 (1961) Building, red, R.1 Service (1961) Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Building Pakistan postage, R.1 (one rupee), red, stamp, 1961

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country: Pakistan postage topic: Building theme: Buildings type of stamp: postal stamp color: Red year: 1961 postal value: R. 1 (1 rupee) designer: ? What building is depicted on the stamp? More from the same series: Building, red, R.1 (1961) Building, red, R.1 Service (1961) Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Cape Coast Castle, Republic of Ghana stamp, c 100

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country: Republic of Ghana topic: Cape Coast Castle theme: buildings type of stamp: postal stamp color: multicolored postal value: c 100 Information: Cape Coast Castle is a fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders. The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 for the Swedish Africa Company and named Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden. It was later rebuilt in stone. In April 1663 the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast. In 1664 the Castle was conquered by the English and was extensively rebuilt by the Committee of Merchants (whose Governors administered the entire British colony) in the late 18th century. It became the seat of the colonial Government of the British Gold Coast in 1844. The Castle was built for trading timber and gold. Later, the structure was used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade (also know as the Slave Castle of Cape Coast). The Castle, was first restored in the 1920's b...

PLZEN, Ceska Republika, Czech Republic stamp, 5 Kc 5, buildings, town, green, Plzeň Region, Plzeňský kraj

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country: Ceska Republika              (Czech Republic) topic: PLZEN theme: buildings, town type of stamp: postal stamp color : green year: ? postal value: Kc 5 designer: ? Information: The Plzeň Region (Czech: Plzeňský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) in the western part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is named after its capital Plzeň (German: Pilsen). (source: Wikipedia, See more about the Plzen region on Wikipedia )

Dique "El Nihuil", Aqueduct, Building, Argentina, Casa De Moneda De La Nacion / Cerichelli GR, 3 Pesos

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country: Argentina topic: Dique "El Nihuil" theme: Aqueduct, Building type of stamp: postal stamp color: dark purple grey design: R. Garrasi postal value: 3 Pesos comments: Casa De Moneda De La Nacion / Cerichelli GR Information: The dam "El Nihuil" whose approval was given for 1948 has been finished 1 year earlier. The irrigators of San Rafael and General Alvear, asked to hasten the date of clearance of the dam because of great need of water for productions. The dam was finished and in use by December 1947 but the official opening took place on January 11, 1948. Seven years before, the province had approved an agreement with the Nation which would build a dam on the river Atuel feet above the Falls of the Nihuil. The dam caused a lake of 9,600 hectares and can feed powerful hydraulic plants throughout the system.

Siedem Wiekow Warszawy - Ratusz Staromiejski Z Konca XVIII Wieku, Poland (Polska) stamp, 40 to 50 GR

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country: Poland (Polska) topic: Siedem Wiekow Warszawy - Ratusz Staromiejski Z Konca XVIII Wieku theme: buildings type of stamp: postal stamp design: J. Willer - CZ Kaczmarczym color: brown year: 1965 postal value: 50 GR (from 40 GR) Information: Ratysz Staromis Jskri end of the XVII Century. The history of Warsaw, the capital and later the largest Polish cities, dating back even the twelfth or thirteenth century, when the oldest historically stood in the former Warsaw court of the dukes of Mazovia Jazdów (now Ujazdów (Warsaw)). Assigning seniority grodowi appearing in the current Forest Brodnowski is abuse, because the land did not belong to BRÓDNO the city of Warsaw until 1916 and did not assist with the development of the city. Over the centuries the city experienced glorious years, but it became on the verge of total destruction for several times. The basic urban layout of today's Warsaw was formed during the reconstruction of the great devastation after World War II...