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Postage stamps and philately of Angola
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Angola bogus stamps - and a story behind Fournier forgery
As Angola is these days part of the evil empire of IGPC (philatelic agency, which produces most of the topical stamps for small islands and developing countries), I was not hardly surprised when I lately received a selection of pretty CTO-used Angola topical stamps. But I was slightly amazed when they all turned out as complete and utter bogus stamps (for some I suspected it, but not all).
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