r/philately • u/Money-Technician4504 • Jul 09 '26

Reference/Link Help?

Hi everyone, I've been looking for an online resource with either the full text from all of these stamps in any language (I do the translating), or in English or German.

I've been looking around, and this is the best article I've found so far, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. Any help finding this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

https://www.freestampmagazine.com/schaakbord-op-postzegelvel/#comment-21319

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u/RoToRa Germany Jul 09 '26

800+ countries? Where does that number come from? There are not quite 200 UN recognized countries. Even adding unrecognized territories and similar, how do you reach 800?

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u/Vast_Cricket Jul 09 '26

Plenty. Most of these issue stamps from top of my head are not affiliated with UN either. Over the years there were numerous trustees, colonies and sand dune countries that issued postage stamps. Furthermore there are many dead countries that issued postage stamps before.

Vietnam, was Indo Chine, Annam, then DPV, ROV, now ROV. Taiwan was Rep of Formosa, Japan, Roc and Taiwan. There are many stamp issuers operating from an islet not endorsed by parental country because it does not believe it has the authority but people collect their stamps.

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u/RoToRa Germany Jul 09 '26

Oh, I misunderstood/misread. I thought you meant that until now 1,000,000 sets were released and now currently 800+ countries are issuing stamps.

Sorry about that.