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Tonga stamps are what shape

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments
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Tonga mentioned, people will first think of the sea and the sky the same color, swaying coconut trees, gucci handbags tropical island style map, and those who love philatelic stamps it will be thought of. This small Pacific island nation, issued numerous stamps very special, so people returned to Tonga from another name the Philatelic Bureau of the State. Tourists to Tonga, but also will not forget at the local post office to buy stamps, first day covers as a tourist souvenir production, because Tonga is not only valuable collections of stamps, it39s still a lot of knowledge back then.

Tonga in 1886 began to issue postage stamps, pattern which is the first dynasty of King profile. Not only the stamps of Tonga has a long history, more particularly, what is the shape of almost all the triangle, cross, fruit shaped, animal shaped, housing type, and graphics and so on, and even sports and celebrity silhouette. It was half-jokingly said that what the world of things, Tonga and India dare to what the shape of the stamps. These interesting shaped stamps, and more in kind to the shape of a map of the country such as Tonga, ships, gold, bananas, flowers, watches and so on.

In 1963, Tonga breakthrough in international practice, to issue a set of six commemorative stamps of the round, this is gucci wallet also the history of the world39s first special postal stamps, the money raised at the time collectors and philatelists of great interest, but also greatly enhanced the visibility of Tonga. In 1964, the South Pacific Conference on Women held in Tonga, the country also issued a chicken-shaped crocodile shape of four commemorative stamps. Since then, the Tonga are a variety of stamps, strange.

Tonga is not only the shape of the special stamps, materials or general, in addition to the paper, as well as metal stamps. Tonga did issue a set of shapes is a heart-shaped islands of Tongatapu and stamps, is suppressed by metal foil, the collectors are known as the heart and boots because the shape is like a boot. This set of stamps has become a competition for the many targets gucci of philatelists.

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