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"Or you get City fans giving their two-pence worth."
Tip of the Day 2011
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The two-pence stamp in a lovely blue on soft grayish wove paper with the profile of Queen Victoria was issued by the Mauritius postal service in 1847.
Still in Love With Stamps Margaret Studer 2011
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My own personal research suggests that “tuppinz” two-pence does not exist as a pronounciation outside of portions of California and Florida.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » GIMME SOME CAW-FEE! 2010
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Feed the birds, two-pence, two-pence, I say, and a good day to dance on a rooftop!
Up in the Air: The Dangers of Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The World reported in 1753: It was in the Easter week, when, to my great surprise, I found a hundred people at least, who, having paid their two-pence apiece, were suffered, unattended, to run rioting up and down the wards, making sport and diversion of the miserable inhabitants.42 Such voyeuristic scenes were not confined to Bethlem.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Thus was born the one-penny orange-red and the two-pence blue, establishing Mauritius as only the fifth country in the world to issue postage stamps.
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The World reported in 1753: It was in the Easter week, when, to my great surprise, I found a hundred people at least, who, having paid their two-pence apiece, were suffered, unattended, to run rioting up and down the wards, making sport and diversion of the miserable inhabitants.42 Such voyeuristic scenes were not confined to Bethlem.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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By then he was already well on his way, having acquired in 1904 -- for the unheard-of sum of £1,450 -- an essential component of any great stamp collection: the two-pence "Post Office" Blue Mauritius.
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The World reported in 1753: It was in the Easter week, when, to my great surprise, I found a hundred people at least, who, having paid their two-pence apiece, were suffered, unattended, to run rioting up and down the wards, making sport and diversion of the miserable inhabitants.42 Such voyeuristic scenes were not confined to Bethlem.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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I stuck my two-pence worth over at Matt Cheney's blog: I picked up Vellum back in August 2005 and read fifty pages.
Whew! Hal Duncan 2006
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