List of people on postage stamps of Abkhazia

This is a partial list of people featured on postage stamps of Abkhazia. These stamps are mainly issued for collectors.^a The dates given are the dates of issue.

• Varvara Bubnova, Russian painter (30 November 30, 1995)^[1]
• Dmitry Gulia, Abkhazian poet (January 19, 1994)^[2]
• Alfred Kolakovsky, Russian botanist (December 22 1998)

There are also illegal stamps issued by "opportunistic printing companies acting like Abkhazians":

• John Lennon, British musician (1995)^[3]b
• Groucho Marx, American comedian (1995)^[3]b

Notes

1. ^ Postage stamps of Abkhazia are not recognized by the Universal Postal Union and can only be used for postage inside Abkhazia.^[3]
2. ^ These stamps, issued as a pair – a play on Marx–Lenin – do not appear in catalogues of Abkhazian stamps, and were perhaps issued by opportunistic companies pretending to act on behalf of Abkhazia.^[3]

References

1. ↑ "Russians in Abkhazia". Former Soviet Union Postage Stamps Catalogue. 
2. ↑ "120th Birth Anniversary of D. Gulia". Former Soviet Union Postage Stamps Catalogue. 
3. 1 2 3 4 "Philatelists Just Wanna Have Fun". The New York Times. April 28, 1995. Retrieved December 13, 2010. 

External links

• Abkhazia at Former Soviet Union Postage Stamps Catalogue (for full lists of legal stamps issued by the Abkhazia authorities since 1993)