Martin J. Frankevicz, editor of the Scott catalog specialized in new issues, found an intriguing topic for the first half of his editorial published in August 2007 Scott Stamp Monthly : it exists out there postal administrations that refuses to sell stamps to collectors !
The sentence is unbelievable : stamp, stamp included in a mini-sheet, in a booklet, on a stationery, pin's, magnet's, video games (... not that one... yet ?), etc.
Who is not trying to sell to honest-to-be pigeon collectors ?
Taiwan Post of the Republic of China in 2004 refused to honor orders from foreigners outside the island for the Harry Potter stamps. After some months, they used the service of Canada Posts.
Likewise, this series about singers on Hong Kong stamps in 2005.
And all this, not by honest sentiments, but by fear of judiciary followings : these posts just bought the rights to use these pictures inside the country... (I maliciously concluded that international mail franking with these stamps shouldn't left the country).
I obliged my Frenchfellow readers not to laugh, even less those who reproduct French stamps on their websites : by this text on a La Poste website,
« La Poste doesn't oppose itself to uploading pictures or photographs of its stamps. But each webmaster has to contact himself the authors, engravers and designers, or their inheritance, to obtain the rights of reproduction. »
This answer is the only one I heard people obtain from Phil@poste, whatever the stamps and its date issue. In France, you have to wait 70 years after the designer(s) died to see his art fall in public domain. Troubles for the future ?
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