Enjoy following the progress of elementary kids as they attempt to collect one million postage stamps from around the world.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Mystery Stamps

Can you find out where these stamps were printed?  Post your response in comments below.

6 comments:

  1. I found a clue on the middle stamp. Hiding behind the cancellation is "Nederland." Nederland is the Dutch name for Netherlands. Sometimes (incorrectly) it is called Holland. The capital is Amsterdam. Nederlands borders Belgium and Germany. Nederlands uses a currency called the Euro (EUR). You can learn about the history, people, government, geography, economy and much more. Go to http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/netherlands.htm to learn more. To see a very good map, click on the link MAPS near the top of the page. If you click on the map after you see it you will see a larger map.

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  2. The top stamp has a hammer and sickle symbol. That was used for the Soviet Union. Also, the cancellation mark says "Mockba". Those are two big clues to the origin of this stamp.

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  3. In the third picture there are Korean letters/symbols and a drum on it. it also has, at the top, left corner of the stamp, a Korean sign. because of this, I am saying it came from North Korea.
    Tate

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  4. Since a comment does not allow you to post a link, I attached a link to the photo of the stamp in the initial post.

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  5. The link to the Netherlands site is very good. You can visit other countries by just changing the country name in the link to the country that you want to explore.

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  6. the second one is from nederland

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