Talk:Independent State of Aramoana
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Is there any information on the philately of this "country" outside of the pics of the stamps on the article page? --Daniel C. Boyer 17:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- Not yet, but I have all 3 stamp issues in my collection and plan to eventually make them available here. --Gene_poole 02:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- I was a postal clerk in Dunedin when these stamps came out. We were supposed to surcharge letters bearing them, though a number of us didn't. There was a story that the stamps caused a minor storm quite apart from the political issue they represented. Apparently New Zealand stamps at the time were designed and/or printed in Spain, and here was someone producing far superior stamps locally, so why were we going offshore for our artists?
- Infamous quote from our mayor at the time, Jim Barnes: "Yellow-eyed penguins don't vote for me." Copey 2 13:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
