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Item no. S518 (stamp)

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Item no. S518 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Cuba

Date of issue: 8 October 1968

Catalog number: Scott no. 1350 (of 1347 – 1351)

Stamp, part of a 5-stamp set “Guerilla Day”, honoring Ernesto “Che” Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerilla leader. The stamp design is based upon an iconic photograph of him taken on 5th March 1960 by Cuban photographer ALBERTO KORDA (real name Alberto Diaz Gutierrez [1928 – 2001]) at Havana cemetery during funeral services for victims of explosion at the ship “La Coubre”. All other stamps of the set bear the same image of Gueavara.

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