Telegraph Postage Stamps

 

A surprisingly large number of countries made postage stamps that commemorated the telegraph. Below are examples of many of these stamps. How many countries do you recognize ?

 

Albania Argentina Armenia Ascension Island
Australia Australia Australia Australia
Australia Australia Australia Australia
Australia Australia Australia Austria
Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Brazil
Brazil Brazil Brazil Bulgaria
Burkina Faso Cambodia Cambodia Cameroun
Cayman Islands Central African Republic Spanish North African City States of Ceuta & Melilla Chad
Colombia Comoros Islands Congo Croatia
Dahomey (Now Called Benin) Dahomey DDR-East Germany DDR-East Germany
Denmark Denmark Denmark Djibouti
Djibouti Ecuador Finland Finland
France France Gabon Gabon
Germany Guatemala Republic of Guinea Guinea-Bissau
Hungary Iceland India India
Indonesia Italy Jamaica Jamaica
Japan (The Top Line Says "International" in Japanese Morse) Japan South Korea South Korea
Macedonia Macedonia Madagascar Madagascar
Malaysia Malaysia Mali Marshall Islands
Moldova-Transnitria Monaco Monaco Morocco
Morocco Nauru Netherlands Netherland Antilles
New Caledonia New Caledonia New Hebrides New Zealand
New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Niger
Norway Palau Paraguay Pitcairn Islands
Portugal Romania Russia Rwanda
Sao Tome E Principe Sao Tome E Principe Serbia Serbia-Montenegro
Spain Spain Spain Spain
Spain Spain St. Helena Island St. Pierre & Miquelon Islands
Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Syria
Thailand Tonga Tunisia Turkey
Turkey Upper Volta (Now Called Burkina Faso) USA USA
USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA
150th Anniversary of Telegraph Invention at Speedwell, NJ Vanuatu Wallis & Futuna Islands Wallis & Futuna Islands
Yemen Arab Republic (Notice They Spelled YAR Incorrectly in Morse) Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
     
  Zambia    

 

 

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