Anyone collecting stamps pre-internet era may remember the taunting task of looking up stamps from those dim b/w imagesc of printed catalogues. It could take hours to put a few stamps into collection. That has all changed now, thanks to online services any stamp can be identified in seconds. This speeds the process of putting stamps in stock book but at the same time one misses the chance of observing fine details of stamp design.
Let's put this to test. The following are excerpts from a few selected stamps from around the globe. To make things harder, I have left out some of the most vital information such as the country's name. The pieces represent various small fractions of the original image. The smallest piece is only a few square mm –a private joke by the famous engraver and not really meant to be recognized,
Your job is to find useful (dis-)information related to printing, engraving, perforation, art, people or indigenous flora and fauna etc. to uniquely identify the stamp. You may assume that none of the stamps has any overprinting not showing in the smaller image.
To obtain the coordinates from the stamps progress one decimal at a time and remember to carry. For example, a set of numbers (a,b,...,f) gives you a coordinate like this
(a,b,c,d,e,f) → ab.cdef°
Geochecker (in finnish, see link below) may be used to verify the exact cache position.
