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    Changing tastes

    Jul 14, 2023 2 minutes

    he 1960s saw a major change to British stamp design. Soon to be history were singlecoloured stamps with symbolic designs. From the tentative two-colour Europa pair of 1960 more colours were used to print stamps and relatively soon came the nine-colour EFTA pair of 1967. While symbolism was still endured in the early 1960s with

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