Apr 22 2026SCIENCE
Swiss stamps from the 1800s: what their colors reveal
Swiss postage stamps from 1850 to 1908 weren’t just about postage. They were tiny canvases showing off the best pigments and dyes of the time. For the first time, researchers closely examined 98 of these stamps using advanced tools like Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Instead of
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