2008 90th Anniversary of World War I Armistice Treaty
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Mint Unhinged |
Fine Used |
$3 |
Miniature Sheet with one 50 cent, one $1 and one $1.50 stamp |
660a |
$9.00 |
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$9.00 |
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… Three Stamps : 2008 The ANZAC Series: Stories of Nationhood 50c (650a), $1 (650c), $1.50 (650d) |
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Miniature Sheet First Day Cover - 20 October 2008 |
660b |
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$13.50 |
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… $3 (660a) |
New Zealand Post issued a special miniature sheet to
commemorate the 90th anniversary of the cessation of World War I
hostilities on the Western Front. This miniature sheet features stamps from
the 2008 The ANZAC
Series: Stories of Nationhood issue.
The armistice treaty
between the Allies and Germany was signed in a railway carriage in
Compiegne Forest on the 11th of November 1918, and marked the end of the
First World War on the Western Front. Principal signatories were Marshal
Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger,
Germany's representative. The Armistice was agreed at 5am to come into
effect at 11am - the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month".
While this official date to mark the end of
the war reflects the cease fire on the Western Front, hostilities continued
in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts
of the old Ottoman Empire.
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