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Say the secret word — and get a postage stamp: Postal Service to release set featuring Groucho, Lucy and Ethel in 2009
Source: msnbc.com

Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze. A secret word brings Groucho a visit from a duck.

Steve McQueen's Queen and Country: The new face of remembrance
Source: Telegraph

A year ago, in a stroke of brilliance, artist Steve McQueen came up with the idea of producing a set of stamps to commemorate the British men and women who had lost their lives in Iraq - and making them available across the world, by persuading the Royal Mail to produce them.

Stamping the Beatles: An Interview with Michael Johnson
Source: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA aiga.

From the article: Founded in 1992 by Michael Johnson, London-based studio Johnson Banks is giving stodgy philatelists a much-needed jolt.

Steve McQueen To Reveal Iraq War Commission In Manchester
Source: 24hourmuseum.org.uk

The installation of stamp facsimiles, bearing unaltered portraits of soldiers, will be displayed in the Great Hall at Central Library, Manchester, from February 28 to July 15.

Sweet and sour stamps
Source: ananova.com

Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.

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