FRANCE - 1963 June 15: An 50 centimes dark green, dark blue and henna-brown postage stamp depicting Cote d’Azur Varoise, is the French Riviera, the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria, Tsar Alexander II and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales

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France. Postage stamps All this postage stamps, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 5300px × 3500px
Location: French Riviera, France
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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