Birds, Flowers, Some Usual Faces and a Crown

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Today I'm going to start with some recent stamps from Turkey..

these are stamps from the set 8 2004 "Birds" 

Perf: 13.5

SG(3580,3581,3583,3584) Sc(2891,2892,2894,2895)

from the set 5 2003 "Fruit blossoms" 

Perf: 13.5 x 14

SG(3540,3543)  Sc(2861,2864)

from the set 5 2001 "Medicinal Plants"

Perf: 13.25

SG(3470,3471)  Sc(2806,2807)

These are stamps not so recent..

1) set 5 1968 "30th Death Anniversary of Kemal Ataturk" Perf: 13 SG(2256) Sc(1789)

2) set 4 1968 "Kemal Ataturk (1968)" Perf:12.5 SG(2228)  Sc(1769)

3) set 7 1970 "Kemal Ataturk (1970)" Perf: 13

SG(2312)  Sc(1835)

4,5) set 15 1972 "Kemal Ataturk (1972/1976)" Perf: 13.5 x 13 SG(2431a,2434a)  Sc(1924,1930)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk

stamp from set 20 1943 representing President Inonu

Perf: 11

SG(1320)  Sc(906)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0smet_%C4%B0n%C3%B6n%C3%BC

Complete set 1988 "Cosmonautic Day"

Perf: 11.5 x 12

SG(5858)  SC(5653)

Complete set 1961 "91th Birth Anniversary of Lenin"

Perf: 12 x 12.5

SG(2579)  Sc(2466) 

set of 2 1962 "92th Birth Anniversary of Lenin" 

Perf: 12.5

SG(2679)  Sc(2582)

two stamps from the set 12 1976 "From Land to Space (once again I invented the name...)" ; the stamps represent Lenin and Marx .. I give the set this name because in the other stamps the focus is in the army and in farmers , then came Lenin and Marx and ends with a space stamp; 

Perf: 12.5 x 12

SG(4541,4543)  Sc(4525,4527)

Now some stamps of British Kings and Queens..

from a set 12 1887 "Queen Victoria 1887/1892)" ; the wmk in this stamp is so beautiful and visible that I took a picture with my mobile phone ( a cheap one..) and there it is .. A beautiful Imperial Crown...
Perf: 14
SG(201)  Sc(114)

Two stamps of King George V , one of Great Britain and the other of British India.

1) from a set 11 1934 "King George V (1934/1936)" Perf: 14 x 15  SG(441)  Sc(212)

2) from a set 19 1911 "King george V (1911/1923)" Perf: 14 [ I am not sure about this stamp..!!! ] SG(202)  Sc(81)

Both stamps are Wmk..

some stamps of King George VI

1) set 6 1950 "King George VI (1950/1951)" Sc(280)

2) set 6 1941 "King george VI (1941/1942) " Sc(258)

3) set 14 1937 "King george VI (1937/1939) " Sc(236)

4) set 6 1941 "King George VI (1941/1942) " Sc(259)

5) set 6 1950 "King George VI (1950/1951)" Sc(281)

6) set 14 1937 "King George VI (1937/1939)" Sc(237)

7) New Zealand  set 7 1938 "King George VI (1938/1944)" Sc(228c)

8) Singapore set 15 1948 "King George VI (1948)" Sc(11)

 Here it is a Booklet of Queen Elizabeth II stamps from 1975... My father brought this from a 2 week work voyage to london..It is not a common item here in Portugal, but i think in England must be a very easy one to find. I don't collect this kind of items..
It is just a curiosity...



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