From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 20:56:47 EST
On 2003.02.24, 18:23, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
> The 1995 series of the Neo-tropical ornothological congress
> shows a capital G with a slash overlay.
>
> The 1969 series of Latin American wildlife shows a capital
> G with a vertical bar overlay.
<...>
> Lots of examples from 1962 (G with vertical bar overlay),
> 1965, 1993, 1994 (G with slash overlay).
Drats! Unless one of those is an obvious mistake, it is a case of glyph
variance (like single and double slash on "$"), which prevents a clean
decomposition to either U+0047 U+0338 or U+0047 U+20D2...
> Stamps are pretty indubitably examples of publications from
> the country in question, though they are about the miniest of
> mini-publications.
Caueat emptor! However many are produced abroad, by the "philatelic
industry", especially for smaller poorer countries, are even unknown
locally. Mistakes abound -- see for instance wrong national flag of St
Vincent at < http://www.flagspot.net/flags/vc!stamp.html >.
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