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Margin rhinos.
You know that, sometimes you have to watch elsewhere than on the stamps themselves to discover the things you are looking for. The (Austrian) United Nations have issued numerous mini-sheets of 16 stamps ( 4x 4 different stamps ) whose subject are endangered animals. Each of those mini-sheets shows in its 4 corners the 4 animals that are the subjects of the printing: here is displayed the 'rhino-corner' of this one. But besides that, (you see them behind the rhino in the margin) other animals are to be seen. For example, you can see a crocodile even if there's no crocodile stamp in this very mini-sheet. So do crocodile-stamps collectors have to buy all the mini-sheets of this series ??? The people who have decided to print these issues are indeed businessmen !!! For my own misfortune, it isn't scanned here, but there is also a rhino in the group of animals where the crocodile is. I should buy every sheet of this series to build the most complete rhino-stamps collection. But I still have only this m/sheet... and I find it's enough for now! Either I will get the others if I'm given them, or I will really be very very rich the day I buy them !!!
All right, all right, I know, I shouldn't write so long sentences...
Here is another example. It's far less hard to explain: look at the nice rhino-icon in the corner of this rhino-m/sheet !
This rhino stamp can be found in sheets, m/sheets or in booklets where it is to be found in just one exemplar among the other stamps of the series (flora and fauna). The cover around the booklet also shows this rhino's face.
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