Stamp Collection 1957

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Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Various shots show George Cohen at his home, leafing through the pages of books filled with paintings of reproductions of stamps and stamps themselves, mounted next to detailed paintings relating to the issue of the stamps.

The paintings are by the late Richard...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
10987
Sort Number:
CP 107
Time in/Out:
01:42:39:00 / 01:44:20:00
Canister:
CP 107
Film ID:
209.19
Issue Date:
14/01/1957

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