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Welcome to the Stamp Enyclopedia Stamp Finder. It is intended to help you systematically identify the country of a postage stamp or its service type. What you have may not be for postage after all so not all such stamps or labels will be included.

First: what is the alphabet used on the stamp?

There are no letters that seem to indicate a country
Click on the appropriate button. Does it show:

a person?:     a numeral/numerals?:      something else?:

There is an overprinted image with no other text in it
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The letters are all in the Latin alphabet, in the characters show below
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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It's partly in the Latin alphabet
If you see any characters you don't recognize in the list above, for example: АРЕСПЧБЛИКА АԤСНЫ • Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ • ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΣ ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ

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It's in Chinese characters only
Examples: 中华人民共和国 • 滿洲國 •

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It's in Arabic script only
Examples: • •

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It's in something else altogether:
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