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not of enough value to mail a letter any more, so to remedy the situation, the local Post
Offices have taken blocks of five "old" printed stamps and overprinted them with
a new image and a new value. The Komondor shown above
is one of these "Russian Overprints" from Kamchatka. These stamps come in a
set of five different colored stamps all with the same overprint. Last time that I got in
some overprints, I assumed that they would remain available. I was wrong and I never
saw more copies of those. I expect these to be equally as rare and collectable. There
is no telling how many of the overprints they produced (not many), since they were never
designed to be sold on the world market. They are of value only for a short while until
the actual stamps can be printed. Unfortunately I do not have the stamp
that was ultimately issued to replace the overprint.
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Central Africa Republic (CAR), landlocked republic in central Africa,
bordered on the north by Chad, on the east by Sudan, on the south
by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and on the west by Cameroon.
A former french colony, which became independent on August 31, 1960,
the CAR was known as the Central African Empire from 1976 to 1979
under the autocratic rule of self-styled,emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa.
The CAR has an area of 622,984 sq mi. Bangui is the Capital. French
is the official language and tribal languages.
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