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The number appearing on the tab of this Israeli stamp is a: a)
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Although the numerals resemble the plate number often seen on the selvage of US stamps, they are a control number (b) assigned by, in this instance, the Israeli government for accounting purposes.
A specialized area of stamp collecting, control numbers are sometimes found printed on the reverse side of stamps, particularly on older Spanish and Latin American issues. The stamp is Scott 94, and was issued in 1955 to commemorate twenty years of youth immigration to the Jewish homeland in Palestine and subsequently, after 1948, to the new state of Israel.
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