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THE Soviet postal authorities have issued a series of new postage stamps to commemorate the centenary this year of the birth of Mendele´eff. The new issues are of five, ten, fifteen and twenty kopek denominations. The five and the twenty kopek denominations bear a design of the Mendeléeff monument against a background of his table of the periodic system of elements; the ten and fifteen kopek denominations bear a portrait of Mendeteeff, also against a background of the table of the periodic system of elements. All the stamps bear the commemoration date 1834-1934.
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Soviet Stamps in Commemoration of Mendeléeff. Nature 133, 458 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133458b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133458b0