"Milco" wrote in message
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Serbia don't have any funny business around, they have very serious -
if You take in account country that are most of history in war - it
can be just "serious" business with postage stamp.

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This King overprint, that happen in 1903 is best as can be at the
time! Printing machine in most of "civilized" europe was far away of
tehnology used on Serbian soil - and war on every corner!!!

Yes, Serbia, and generally the Balkans have a past filled with wars, that
ended with the wars & ethnic cleansings, etc. of the end of the 20th
century. The wars were stopped from outside. Just pro memoria, the
beginnings:
"
The "powder keg" "exploded" causing the First World War, which began with a
conflict between imperial Austria-Hungary and Pan-Slavic Serbia. Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Austrian royal family, was
assassinated by a Serbian nationalist of the Black Hand movement. ... Due to
the system of European alliances, this led to a series of escalating
Austrian and Russian mobilizations and eventually Germany and France were
also obliged to mobilize and declare war.
"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_keg_of_Europe

There are many stamps that remind us the tragic events related to the WWI.

Just to finally mention that the printing technology mentioned above, used
in Balkans, was mostly imported from the Western countries. The situation
hasn't changed since, at least in the region of Balkans that I know better.

--
Victor Manta

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