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I've never run across this item (one of a set) before. The text implies that is a postage stamp, but
is it an essay, a fantasy, or what?
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I've now run across an illustration of a similar item portraying Lenin (this is Trotsky, I presume) in Harry
Rooke's article "Phantoms" (part 9, Propaganda Phabtoms), described as a Bolshevik propaganda
phantom. [Rick Scott]
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If original than this set was made by Marco Fontano in Venice (Italy) in 1923. By using
public appeal to help Russian people during starvation he printed this set (and some others)
with Soviet leaders. Somewhere here should be first stamp with Lenin (Lenin did not
want to see his image on Russian stamps). First reports (as if these stamps
were real stamps) about this set see in Soviet Philatelist of 1924. Later of
course stamp collectors complained about this issue. [Andrew Farberov]
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