ATD: cover: "seal"

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 10:08:34 CST 2006


Wow!  You found the image.  It's a dradon in front of a three-peaked mountain.

On 11/1/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> "The telegraph stamps from Tibet were for long time dismissed as Cinderella's, produced only for collectors etc. But recent research lead to the conclusion that these stamps indeed served a function as Wireless Telegraph stamps, used to pay the telegraph fees.
> Due to the fact that for a long time no one took care of these stamps, they are quite rare now and much sought after. The offered stamp is the rarest stamp in the set of 5 wireless telegraph stamps of Tibet and demand high prices. Nomination is 5 Sang and the stamp is in very fine mint condition."
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> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://fuchs-online.com/auction/tibet-tele3-mint.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D110005758987%26indexURL%3D&h=304&w=252&sz=37&hl=en&start=29&tbnid=jb-4acTxxLs2nM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTIBET%2Bstamps%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
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> http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Tibet%2C+Wireless+Telegraph+stamp&btnG=Search
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