The Rope and the Sail

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Today we will have another post about the beautiful stamps of Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika... This time , some stamps of King George V...

In the end of the post , some Personality stamps from Czechoslovakia...

Kenya , Uganda and Tanganyika

I will present the stamps individually , because they all are beautifully designed and worked...

1935/1937 "King George V" (14) [Perf 14 (5c,50c,1s,2s) 13(15c,20c,30c) 12 x 13(10c)][Des (5c,50c ?)(10c A. Ross)(15c,1s,2s G. Gil Holmes)(20c R.C. Luck)(30c R.N. Ambasana)][Typo (10c) Recess (De La Rue & Co. Ltd , London) (all others)] Sc(47,48,49,50,51,52,54,55)

In the 5c stamp there are two main varieties... I) the most common, and the one represented in the picture above , where you can see that the rope doesn't touch the sail.. let me specify that it is the leftmost rope that we must see.. II) in the other variety  , the rope actually touch the sail .. in this case the stamp values more ;  but if it has  Perf 12 x 13 (instead of 14) and Type I) , then it ' jumps' to a CV £ 550 (Used).. it is so difficult to have one of this stamps , that I prefer to joke with all of this , but I am beginning to give a more careful look to all the spare stamps....

1935 "Silver Jubilee" (4) [Perf 14 x 13.5][Des (H. Fleury)][Recess (De La Rue Co. Ltd,London)] Sc(42,...,45)

In other post about the KUT stamps , I have already presented the 20c stamp of this series .. in this series we also have some small particularities to look for... I have any of them to present you , so I cannot document them , and to be here talking about little dots and lines without presenting the right place where they should fit , it is a 'empty' exercise... 
There are houses build for comfort, cars build for speed, and there are also stamps build for Detail..! Commonwealth had many of these stamps where "the scarce simply ' pop up ' from the common" in a blink of an eye..!! As Ferrari's of Precision , these kind of stamps cannot be traded or exchanged without a closer look to every detail available... Of Course a specialized catalog is always necessary...!! 

1949 "75th Anniversary of the UPU" (4) [Perf 14 x 13.5 (20c) 13 x 13.5 (1s) 11 x 11.5 (30c,50c)][Des (Waterlow and Sons Limited , London 20c,1s)(Bradbury Wilkinson  30c,50c)][Recess (WS 20c,1s) Typo (BW 30c,50c)] Sc(94,...,97)

Czechoslovakia

It is known to the few of you who follow this blog, that I like Personality stamps.. many of our Hobby friends don't like them , because sometimes they are not beautiful or are a boring kind of stamps, I don't know ,there are many ways to dislike Personality stamps..!.

I think that they are one of the most effective ways of immortalize someone... and in the Czech case they have immortalized many people and they done it with admirable artistry, with their great Designers and Engravers...  

Many of the definitive series that were and still are issued by the various National Post Office's , could be classified as Personality stamps... They honored the Kings or Presidents or distinct figures of society .. what should be considered a Personality stamp is something to be 'asked' and 'cleared'...


1948/1949 "President Klement Gottwald" (6) [Perf 12.5][Des (Jindra Schmidt)][Recess (Jindra Schmidt)] Sc(363,364,365,366)

still in 1948 a 30K SS was issued and in 1949 a 10k was issued..

I present the 15h stamp, but I cannot find the correct Scott code... it is still missing me..(It's there allright, but I cannot find it..!)

1949 "Poets" (6) [Perf 14][Photo] Sc(374,...,377)

There are two more stamps in the series ( that are already in my collection) , with Perf 12.5 and they are Recess stamps..
No design data of these stamps... if you know something , please contact me... I still don't have a Czech Catalog...

1945/1947 "President's" (16) [Perf 12 x 12.5 (60h,3K) 14 (1.60K)][Des (Jindra Schmidt)][Recess (Jindra Schmidt)(60h,3K)][Photo (1.60k)] Sc(294,303,297)

The personality in Focus is President Edvard Benes ... This series could be considered as a all or as 3 different series... I prefer the first hypotheses ...The series has 3 different designs from 3 different Personalities... President Masaryk , President Benes and General Milan Stefánik
It is also divided in two parts , one issued from 1945 to 1947 (12 stamps) (Recess / Perf 12 x 12.5) and other only in 1945 ( 4 stamps) (Photo / Perf 14)..

This is an older stamp, representing Czechoslovakia breaking chains to Freedom...
As you can see the upper right stamp is damaged, and all the block has a large hinge ..

1920/1925 "Various Designs" (10) [Perf 14][Des ?][Typo] Sc(87)

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Do you Remember??

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Today's post is small ... 

Angola

As you know I had to buy some Japan stamps to end the Matsuo Basho post (" The Promise and the Traveler's Poem")... I also bought 2 stamps of this beautiful Angolan series , just to end it also.. the rest of the stamps were not classified yet, so I present them today...

It a series with common designs used in all the former Portuguese Colonies... it emphasis's Explorer's , Navigator's , Warrior's and Men of Knowledge, that distinguish themselves in Portuguese History..

In this particular series , we have designs of Vasco Da Gama , Mouzinho de Albuquerque , Prince Henry the Navigator , and Afonso De Albuquerque..

1938 "Portuguese Colonial Empire" (18) [Perf 13.5 x 13][Des (Arnaldo Ressano Garcia)][Intaglio (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co., London)] Sc(274,...,291)

Turkey

In these stamps from Turkey there are two distinct groups... one from the Ottoman period and other from the more recent , Republican period.

1916 "Overprint (Moon & Star 1916) on '50th Anniversary of the Introduction of Postage in Turkey'" (4) [Perf 13.5][Litho] Sc(B42,...,B45)

There are two possible perforations ( 13.5 and 12.5)

1960 "Manisa Festival" (4) [Perf 13][Offset] Sc(B75,...,B78)
The monuments highlighted are the Manisa Asylum (1st,2nd) , the Blue Mosque (3rd)... 
I cannot find data about the Personality represented in the 4th stamp .. (only sites in Turkish language and I don't even know the right name ...  it's better not to invent one.!) 

   

      United States of America

In the next posts , I will include some US or Spanish stamps , because I have many of them to classify... also from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Russia ... I will leave a small part in the end of the posts to show some of these stamps...

 [Left] 1958 "Mackinac Bridge Commemoration" (1) [Perf 10.5 x 11][Des (Arnold Copeland)] [Recess (R.M. Bower)][Rotary Press Printing] Sc(1109)

[Right] 1957 "B52's and Lockheed F104" (1) [Perf 11 x 10.5][Recess][Rotary Press Printing] Sc(C49)[AIR]

1941/1944 "Two Motored Transport airplane" (7) [Perf 10.5 x 11][Des (William A. Roach)][Recess (Picture : J.R. Lowe , Labels : J.S. Edmondson and T. Vail)] [Rotary Press Printing] Sc(C25,...,C30)

All the stamps are issued in 1941 except the 8c stamp that was issued in 1944..there is only one stamp missing , the 50c...

1956 "50th Anniv of Devils Tower National Monument" (1) [Perf 10.5 x 11][Des (Charles R. Chickering)][Recess (A.W. Dintaman)][Rotary Press Printing] Sc(1084)

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El Alamein

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Some stamps from Egypt are on the Menu today...

I think they are beautiful stamps , very colorful and with lot's of details to analyse...

You already know of my personal quest for 1967 stamps.. Well these are all stamps from that particular year, but there are some of them missing yet...( the Year is not complete..)

Let us start..

EGYPT

 This is a series that represents items obtained with the discovery of the treasure of Tutankhamun.. the opening of his Tomb is surrounded by mystery and questions, many questions...
I will not give any emphasis's to this mystery approach but i will leave here a link to an interesting recent Egyptian attempt to answer some of the questions about the Pharaoh's Paternity..  (*) [King Tut Unwrapped Ep.1 - part 1/part 2][Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty (part 1/10)] If you want to pass some time among Gods, Pharaoh's and Mummy's You can follow this path, starting by the 1st King Tut video and searching for the others ...It's time well spent...

All of the stamps that are presented here today have this wmk.. it represents multiple eagles from a coat of arms... this is just an image taken from one catalog , but the wmk is clearly and easily visible in every one of the stamps...

these are really spectacular stamps...

1967 "Post Day / " (4) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(712,713,B33,B34)

Some of you already noticed the presence of the Label "UAR" in all of these stamps... As you know the United Arab Republic begins in 1958 with the merge of Egyptian and Syrian Governments... However in 1961 a Military coup brings the independence from UAR to Syria..Egypt alone continued for some more years to be called the UAR..
[Left] 1967 "Ramadan Festival" (1) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(714)
[Right] 1967 "Tree Festival" (1) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(715)

These are stamps related to tourism... We can find in this series the Urgency of saving the Nubian Monuments ,publicity to Hunting, a reminder of the famous WW II Battle of El Alamein (*) , the Virgin's Tree and the importance of the Red Sea...

(*) there were two Battles of El Alamein, both taken place in 1942.. I leave here two links for Wikipedia, one for each Battle , for those who , like me , like to watch , study and know things about War strategy..
1st Battle 2nd Battle
small video

1967 "International Tourism Year" (5) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(912,...,916)

[Left] the stamp represents Jamal ad-din Al-Afghani
1967 "Arab Publicity Week" (1) [Perf 11 x 11.5][Photo] Sc(716)

[Right] President Nasser appears in this stamp along with a map of Palestine.
1967 "Arab solidarity for Palestine Defence" (1) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(721)

 [Left] "1st Industrial Census" (1) [Perf 11x11.5][Photo] Sc(717)

[Right] "Labour Day" (1) [Perf 11x11.5][Photo] Sc(718)

A small SS celebrating the Regional and National Export Products..

1967 "15th Anniversary of the Revolution / National Products" (1) [Imperf][Photo] Sc(722)

[Left]  represent a Campaign by UNESCO regarding the Restauration of Florence and Venice Monuments...

1967 ""Save the Monuments of Florence and Venice" (2) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(B35,B36)

[Right] 1967 "World Savings Day" (1) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(725)

1967 "U.N. Day. Egyptian Art" (3) [Perf 11.5][Photo] Sc(724,...,726)

I Would like to end this post with some notes related somehow to Egypt and to these stamps..

In my recent attempts to find information about the Designers of the stamps I present here, I came across a Egyptian Site that captured my attention.. it is the site of the "New Library of Alexandria" where important sectors of Egyptian History and Legacy are kept and Digitized for future Generations.. it is the case of Postage Stamps and Coins ,that have a beautiful and well organized program in the site , but it is only in Arabic Language...!!! please , make this sections available to everyone..!! if it is a On-going project , there is no reason to deny this knowledge and info to the rest of the world...

Finally I would like to tell that some of these stamps would have much to gain if they were engraved..[Photogravure doesn't help...] ! they would be Great Works of Art of our little Stamp world.... 

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Uniforms

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The stamps from Spain that I present today are divided mostly in Military and Sports stamps...

They all are very common stamps from the 60's, 70's and 80's..

These are stamps from individual series "Army Day" from 1979 to 1983..
I would like to emphasis that the printing of the stamps I show today is highly irregular and that , was for me a surprise..  the printing is sometimes good and sometimes very bad with great lack of detail... I don't find any reason for this...

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1979 "Armed Forces Day" (1) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2152)

1980 "Armed Forces Day" (1) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2210)

1981 "Armed Forces Day" (1) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2238)

1982 "Armed Forces Day and Centenary of General Military Academy" (1) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2292)

1983 "Armed Forces Day" (1) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2333)

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1983 "State Security Forces" (3) [Perf 13.5][Photo] Sc(2316,...,2318)

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Here we have a real "Must Have" situation!! it is a series that was first issued in 1973 and ended in 1978... there are IX sub-series of 5 stamps each.. the series show's the evolution of Military uniforms from the three branches of the Armed forces , from the Discovery days to the first years of XX Century... the Printing irregularity that I was talking about , is clearly shown in these series with great stamps and very poor stamps... but in general I think this is a  highly recommendable series..

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1975 "Military Uniforms series V" (5) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1902,1903,1904,1906)

1976 "Military Uniforms Series VI" (5) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1989,1992,1993)

1977 "Military Uniforms Series VII" (5) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2024)

1977 "Military Uniforms Series VIII" (5) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(2051,...,2055)

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1972 "Olympic Games, Munich" (4) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1725,...,1728)

1964 "Olympic Games, Tokyo and Innsbruck" (5) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1266,...,1270)

1972 "Winter Olympic Games, Sapporo, Japan" (2) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1701,1702)

1968 "Winter Olympic Games, Grenoble" (3) [Perf 13][Photo] Sc(1509,...,1511)

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not anymore with military or sports stamps, we have now some stamps from a series commemorative of the Spanish Monarchs of the House of Bourbon (there is a stamp from King Juan Carlos I , who also belongs to this Royal House..)

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1978 "Spanish Kings and Queens of the House of Bourbon" (10) [Perf 13][Recess] Sc(2124,2125,2128,2129,2131)

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1977 "Bicentenary of Mail to the Indies, and "Espamer 77" Stamp Exhibition, Barcelona" (1) [Perf 12.5] [Recess][Offset] Sc(2065)

The right stamp is from a series of 3 trios of se-tenant stamps .. each one of these trios has different values and this one is the last (As you can see there is a missing stamp in this trio...)

1978 "Anniversaries of Artists (Tiziano Vecelio 1477-1576)" (9) [Perf 12.5 x 13][Recess] Sc(2093,2094)

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Just as a curiosity, here is a booklet of 6 Juan Carlos I stamps , issued in 1986 with the EDIFIL code 2834C

To End this post I have the "Cherry at the top of the Cake.." ; it is one more stamp ( I have 3 , with this one.. ) of this famous series...

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1930 "Christopher Colombus Tribute" (16) [Perf 12.5] [Des (José Luis Lopez Sanchez Toda)(A. Gisbert)(D. Puebla)][Recess (Sanchez Toda)(C. Delhom)] [Print (Waterlow and Sons Limited , London)] Sc(426)

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