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Several things grate my nerves about these labels now. One is the hypocrisy of Scott Publishing, in that they refuse to list the 1934-6 Tuvan postage stamps...heck they even ignore the 1942 and 1943 issues....yet they carried ADVERTISEMENTS for one of these label makers in their catalog! The other thing is that these labels are obviously just manufactured to separate novice/naive stamp collectors from their money...and in doing so all of Tuva is again getting denigrated in the press. Les Winick wrote a very useful pamphlet listing the "make believe" countries that are being used to generate these topical labels. Unfortunately here's the listing he gave for Tuva: TUVA, TOUVE: Mongolia, stopped issuing its own stamps in 1933. Ignoring any discussion about simply labeling this as "Mongolia", this booklet again ignores the postage stamps of 1942 and 1943, as well as the more controversial Sekula issues. We have another repetition of the idiocy that is printed only in the Scott Stamp Catalog. enough already, back to stamps
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