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四国3博覧会(岡山・松山・高松) << 1949年(昭和24年) 3月20日 >> 2-4-34

Shikoku prifecture Okayama Exhibition Issued on March 20, 1949 (Showa 24)

Okayama Exhibition Issued on March 20, 1949 (Showa 24) In March 1949 (Showa 24), the Ministry of Communications issued stamps for each of the three host cities in commemoration of the exhibitions related to industrial reconstruction and tourism in the three cities of Shikoku. The design of this stamp is a diversion of a foreign-use 10-yen postcard. In addition, all three stamps have the same design, and only the colors are slightly different, making it difficult to distinguish them. In this era, profits from the issuance of stamps have become an important source of revenue, and it can be seen that the government sold these commemorative stamps with the aim of storing them without using them for communications.