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COIN & STAMP COLLECTING: Irish Nobel literature laureates are honored on Sweden and Ireland stamps
From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20041010
Author:Dominic Sama
Sweden and Ireland will honor four Irish Nobel literature laureates Friday, in a joint issue of a block of four commemoratives.
The designs are identical except for the country name and denominations. Each Swedish stamp is 10 kronors, while the Irish stamps are nondenominated and printed with an "N" to indicate use for domestic mail.
The stamps feature portraits of William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
Yeats (1865-1939) won the Nobel Prize in 1923 for dramatic writing. His most renowned works are "Land of Heart's Desire and "The Hour Glass. In addition to ...
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