| More New Countries |
[Mar. 25th, 2012|12:43 am] |
In 2010 the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands off the northern coast of South America, split into 3 separate entities: Saint Martin, Curacao, and Caribbean Netherlands. These are the first stamps issued by each of these new countries. They show maps of the islands, their flags, and on the Caribbean Netherlands stamp, the Queen of the Netherlands is shown. |
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| New Country |
[Mar. 13th, 2012|04:40 pm] |
These are the first stamps from the world's newest country, South Sudan. They were issued in July of 2011. |
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| Making tiny things BIG! |
[Jan. 19th, 2012|11:49 pm] |
I just worked on two big scans of favorite stamps that I plan to print as huge posters, frame, and hang in my bedroom. The printable versions are about 16MB each, but here are smaller versions for your enjoyment.
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| After all, stamps should be seen |
[Dec. 28th, 2011|02:51 pm] |
You know the Martian landscape I scanned for the userinfo for this community? I framed it! Along with a couple of other USA stamps with space exploration themes.
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| French cartoon stamps |
[Apr. 6th, 2011|05:42 pm] |
1999 Asterix |
2000 Tintin | 
2001 Gaston Lagaffe |
2002 Boule & Bill |
2003 Lucky Luke | 
Droopy stamps |
Looney Tunes stamps |
2009 50 years of Asterix | 
2007 Tintin |
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| 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Nelson |
[Mar. 18th, 2011|10:10 am] |
 
 
 
This is a 2008 Gibraltar issue commemorating the 250th birth anniversary of Admiral Horatio Nelson. It came in six sheetlets of six stamps each with a ship from the Admiral's fleet, the large selvage to the right of the sheetlet had a large image of the same ship with some details and the British naval flag. I asked the Gibraltar stamp bureau if I could order the sheets with the just the right most column of stamps and the image. They agreed. Except that the order was lost, I re-ordered this year and it arrived safe. The minisheet is below.
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| 2009 French Asterix stamp issue |
[Mar. 17th, 2011|05:45 pm] |
The menhir depicted on the minisheet is coated with a rock like substance
This issue commemorated 50 years of Asterix comics. |
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| Hawaiian Rain Forest |
[Feb. 11th, 2011|03:47 pm] |
In 2010 the US Postal service introduced the eleventh in these Nature of America stamp pane series, this one is called the Hawaiian Rain Forest. Each sheet are having 10 self adhesive stamps. If you click on each of them, an enlarged version of each stamp will be displayed. The series closed in 2010 with this pane.
If you move your mouse over each of the stamp, you will get to read what is depicted on them. Have you spotted all the ten stamps? All the species on the sheet are not part of the ten stamps, some of these I have tagged, so you can find their names by hovering your mouse over it.
Date of issue: 1 September 2010
This is the text from the rear of the sheet.
Rainfall is abundant in a Hawaiian rain forest a verdant world dotted with 'oru'a lehua blossoms and the flowers of the kanawao, 'aha, and other shrubs. Typically, the leaves and branches of mature 'ohi'a lehua trees make up the forest canopy Saplings, shrubs, and tree ferns dominate the understory, while a great variety of smaller ferns, herbs, and mosses carpet the forest floor.
The lush vegetation offers protection and sustenance for wildlife, including several bird species, numerous insects, and the islands' only native terrestrial mammal-the 'ope'ape'a. or Hawaiian hoary bat. Because of Hawai'i's remote location, its rain forest plants and animals were safe from competition and predation by introduced species until relatively recent times; today they are among the most vulnerable biological communities on Earth.
The stamp pane features a rain forest on the island of Hawai'i. In the painting, a tiny happyface spider clings to a leaf in the foreground as honeycreepers and other birds
seek nectar, insects, and berries amid the dense foliage.
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