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Postage stamps and philately of Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea - a country with lost philatelic reputation
When stamp collectors are asked to name stamp issuing countries they consider offensive, the name of tiny middle-African Equatorial Guinea is abound to come up sooner or later. So what's the story behind bad reputation?
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Christian Easter in postage stamps of Equatorial Guinea
The easter is close, so it's time to look some of the easter stamps. For the next 4-5 adding this post with various Easter souvenir sheets from 1970's Equatorial Guinea (also known as "dictator Nguema era") each day. I know most collectors categorize these as "bogus" since there's no proof of real usage or legimite origin of these stamps; most likely they are right. I think Michel is currently the only major catalogue providing full listing of these... But bogus or not, IMO these make suprisingly fascinating and nice looking area to collect.
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