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Article: Buyers, Beware of Fake Armenian Postage Stamps
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- The Armenian Reporter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Bournoutian, George
Armenian Reporter, The
03-22-2003
I started collecting postage stamps 50 years ago. As I grew older, I
concentrated on Russia/USSR, Poland", Persia/Iran, Israel, and Germany.
Thirty years ago, after I started working on my Ph.D. in Armenian history,
I began to be interested in stamps issued by the first Republic of Armenia.
I saw advertisements by Armenian stamp dealers selling various sets of the
first three issues of Armenian stamps. I purchased a number of these and
gave them as gifts. As I began teaching Armenian history, my interest in
the stamps of Armenia grew and I became a serious collector. I realized
that Armenia had a very brief philatelic history. It had only ...