STAMPS

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Birth Bicentenary of French Writer Honoré de Balzac.
Date of issue: 20th May 1999.

Designer: G.Kuznetsov
Paper: coated
Printing process: offset
Perforation: 13 1/2
Size: 40 x 28 mm.
Sheet composition: 36 (6 x 6) stamps
Printing run: 200.000
Michel catalogue numbers: 306
40 k. multicoloured. Portrait of theFrench writer Honoré de Balzac, catholic temple in Berdichev where Balzac
married Mme.  Hanska.

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Overprinted stamps on obsolete stamps of the former Soviet Union showing the "Newfoundland" dog
(Ukraine - Berdichev - 1994)
The stamps show the head of a "Newfounland"dog

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Post mark of Berdichev (ex-Faberge)

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