File:Stamp_BAT_1963_0.5p.jpg Knowpia

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to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

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Non-free media data
Description	British Antarctic Territory 1/2p stamp of 1963 .
Source	scanned by User:Stan Shebs
Portion used	Entire stamp.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by the issuing postal authority.

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Non-free media rationale for Postage stamps and postal history of the British Antarctic Territory
Article	Postage stamps and postal history of the British Antarctic Territory
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist. There is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.

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