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Stamps without country names

Great Britain
Great Britain does not normally use words to identify their country, but instead use their monarch's image. Look for that exact image in a stamp design. Remember, these are stamps with no other country name, as its colonies and Commonwealth countries have used those images also but do include their own names. An additional clue is that the currency is given as "d"/penny/pence, "/" is shillings (1/6 is one shilling (and) sixpence) or "£"/pound/pounds; since conversion to decimal currency, "p" is penny/pence.  File:GB penny red.jpg|Victoria, found on British stamps from 1840 to 1900. File:GB 1 penny QV.jpg|Victoria again on typographed stamp of 1881. File:GB KEVII shilling.jpg|Edward VII, found on British stamps 1902-1910. File:GB KGV 4d.jpg|George V, found on British stamps 1911-35. File:GB KGVI 2 and 6.jpg|George V again, not the main focus but still included to indicate that this is a British stamp. File:GB KEVIII.jpg|Edward VIII, found only on one definitive issue of 1936. File:GB KGVI 2.5d defin.jpg|George VI, found on British stamps 1937-51. File:GB QEII Wilding.jpg|Elizabeth II, the Wilding portrait used 1952-early 1966. File:GB QEII 7d defin.jpg|Elizabeth II, the Machin head design used on definitives beginning in 1967. File:GB technology.jpg|Elizabeth II, the Gentleman portrait, used from 1966 to date on commemoratives. A sculpted version has been used also. File:GB fishing.jpg|Elizabeth II, smaller sized Gentleman portrait, used in different colors including gold as well as facing the other way. It has also been used on British Commonwealth stamps as well. 

Others
 File:Austria Newspaper A.jpg|Austrian newspaper stamp of 1874. File:Austria newspaper 1880.jpg|Austrian newspaper stamp in a new color with a ½kr value tablet added was issued in 1880. File:Austria Newspaper B.jpg|Austrian newspaper stamp of 1901. The diagonal stripes are varnish bars intended to prevent re-use. There are 4 values in different colors. File:Austria Newspaper C.jpg|Yet another anonymous Austrian newspaper stamp, issued 1908. There are again 4 values in different colors. File:Greece postal tax 1918.jpg|Postal tax stamp of Greece. The currency, lepta, helps confirm this. File:Lebanon president.jpg|Lebanon stamp of President Eddé. Here, the country name in Latin and Arabic is well hidden in the frame around the portrait. 3 values in different colors as well as surcharged stamps. File:Bosnia and Herz Newspaper.jpg|1913 newspaper stamp of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 4 values in different colors. File:Yugoslavia perfed girl.jpg|In 1918, the issue to left was perforated for use in Bosnia and Herzegovina when it became part of Yugoslavia. 4 values in different colors. File:Yugoslavia surch news.jpg|1918 surcharged values for Yugoslavia; 2 values in different colors. 

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