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Caution: Russia’s Disneyland guarded by “Mad Dog”

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Defects that cost millions

Published: 17 June, 2009, 14:30


Image from Spink Shreves Galleries

A collection of defective postage stamps will be sold for the incredible sum of nearly US$4 million!

 
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