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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:44 PM
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Philatelists - a trivia question
Edited on Thu Feb-11-10 05:46 PM by arcadian
The USPS has a series of stamps depicting the Chinese lunar new year. Can you tell me what is extra special about this years stamp? The year of the Tiger.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:49 PM
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1. It's purty
and I know nothing about stamps but the gold lettering seems unusual to me.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:50 PM
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2. More about Chinese culture than stamps.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:54 PM
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4. Hmmm.
It doesn't have the "Spring" symbol?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:59 PM
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5. nope
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 05:51 PM
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3. Those aren't tiger lillies.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 06:13 PM
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7. narcissus
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 06:04 PM
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6. 44 is unlucky?
Double death?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 06:18 PM
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8. That's it.
You got it. 4 is unlucky so 44 is especially unlucky.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 07:29 PM
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9. It took me a little bit to figure it out.
Had this been 10 years ago, it would have hit me right off.
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-11-10 07:44 PM
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10. Just one of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac...
that show up after so many years. One particularly popular stamp was the year of the Dragon.

The order of animals is determined by the order in which they approached Buddha(as I recall).
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