Some old DPRK stamps

On my recent trip to Laos, I took a domestic flight from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. In the Luang Prabang airport gift shop (managed by a Russian) I saw these DPRK stamps which were issued on June 20, 1975:

 

The stamps are denominated in 10, 25 and 60 chon (천, 100 chon=1 won). Due to inflation in the DPRK, nobody even sees or calculates in chon anymore.

The stamps depict competitive divers. The 10 and 40 chon note depict the “swallow dive” and the 25 chon stamp depicts the “lobster dive”.

According to my copy of the Korean Stamp Catalogue 1946-2002, p 88, (thanks to a friend for the copy) I now know that the images do not appear to be specific divers but rather general representations.

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