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Item no. 8 stamp

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Type: stamp
Country: Sweden
Date of issue: 9 December 1942
Catalog number: Michel 295 – 296

Stamp issued to honor 200th anniversary of birth of Carl Wilhelm Scheele [1742 – 1786], German-Swedish chemist. He investigated the phenomenon of silver chloride blackening in the light. It shows a drawing of his alleged portrait. Part of set of 2 stamps having the same design but different colors and two different values of denomination. Available in horizontal and vertical perforation.

Item no. 8 (stamp)

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