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- ↑ "VAN DER LINDEN, RDP". www.aiep-experts.net. Retrieved Feb 13, 2019.
- ↑ "Roll of Distinguished Philatelists", The London Philatelist , Vol. 111, No. 1295 (May 2002), p. 128.
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