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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Postage stamp design
Description	stamps of various shapes and sizes.
Source	private collection © La Poste, Poste Italiane S.p.A., Hungarian Post Office, Yemen Arab Republic
Article	Postage stamp design
Portion used	combination
Low resolution?	NA (several in the same image), the background is not copyrighted
Purpose of use	Illustration of various shapes and sizes of postage stamps, for use in Postage stamp design only
Replaceable?	None possible, all modern stamps have the same rationale

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a postage stamp. The copyright for it may be owned by the issuing authority, and there may be other restrictions on its reproduction. It is believed that the use of postage stamps

to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use as well as the source of the work and copyright information.