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Cancellation - Italy (Merano) - 2009 May 9
This circular cancellation features left-facing portraits of Dante and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe surrounded by text: "39012 MERANO CENTRO-MERAN…
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Cancellations
A cancellation or cancel is a postal marking applied over a postage stamp or on postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use.…
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Miniature Sheet - Uruguay - 2021
This miniature sheet shows Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. Printed by…
Postage Stamp - Uruguay - 2021
This stamp issued by Uruguay features a design by Daniel Pereyra of Dante and Virgil watching Charon in his boat on the River Acheron from Inferno…