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 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 Yemen Arab Republic (Notice They Spelled YAR Incorrectly in Morse) Yugoslavia
 
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Zambia  

 

 

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