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Cover from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1949 UPU issue, scanned October 2005 by User:Stan Shebs

The scratchout of the "first day of issue" seems to derive from a confusion in the Scott catalog, which reports the first day as 10/1 rather than 10/10, in contradiction to other catalogs.

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