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References
- ↑ "The 'Harold Row' Collection of the Stamps of Siam" by Edward Denny Bacon in The London Philatelist , Vol. XXIX, February 1920, No. 338, pp. 24-25.
- ↑ The Row Collection. British Library, 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2012. Archived here.
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