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Maritime Topics on Stamps
October Stamps 2006
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Poland, a set with four stationeries "Nature Park Masuren". Among them two cards with sailing boats.
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Aruba, a set with four stamps "20 years Hi-Winds"; surf sails are depicted.
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a souvenir sheet with two stamps "Washington 2006 Philatelic Exhibition". Here only the stamps are depicted.
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Egypt, a single stamp, 50 years since the Egypt state take over control about the Suez Canal.
Before a canal society (Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez) gave orders and got the passage money.
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Macedonia, a single stamp "500th anniversary of Columbus death". On the stamp the "Santa Maria" is depicted.
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Malta, a set with five stamps, 450 years navy history are reflected by this issue.
Left top "Gran Caracka di Rodi Ordni ta' San Gwann 1530", beside "Guillaume Tell (HMS Malta) 1800", right
"USS Constitution 1837". Right below "HMS Dreadnought" and "Bush Gorbachev Summit 1989" with the Russian / Bulgarian
"Slava" and the USS "Belknap".
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You find a detailed description on the page of the Malta Post:
http://www.maltapost.com/page.asp?n=newsdetails&i=5520.
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Bequia, Grenadines of St. Vincent, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp to 500th day of death
of Columbus; "Christopher Columbus 1451 - 1506".
The ship on the $1.10 stamp should be the "Nina", on the sheet the "Pinta".
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Union Island, Grenadines of St. Vincent, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp to 500th day of death
of Columbus; "Christopher Columbus 1451 - 1506".
The ship on the sheet should be the "Santa Maria ".
As You can see, the pictures of the Columbus stamps from the Caribbean area or the printing of the stamps
are not in good condition.
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St. Vincent & the Grenadines, a set with four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp to 500th day of death
of Columbus; "Christopher Columbus 1451 - 1506".
The ship on the $2 stamp should be the "Santa Maria". On the $3 stamp we see all three, the "Santa Maria",
the "Nina" and the "Pinta" and on the sheet the "Pinta" again.
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Guyana, a souvenir sheet with three stamps, "Christopher Columbus 1451 - 1506".
From left the "Nina", the "Pinta" and the "Santa Maria" are depicted.
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Hongkong - China, a set with four stamps "Chinese Idioms and their Stories". Here the stamp "All in the same Boat".
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Macau - China, a se-tenant of four stamps "Macau Patrimonio Mundial". Among them this stamp with a junk.
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Uruguay, a se-tenant of four stamps "Captain Miranda".
Left top the "Captain Miranda" of 1930, beside the "Captain Miranda" of 2005. Right below
Captain Miranda (1869 - 1925) and beside the coat of arms of Cadiz, Captain Miranda and Montevideo.
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"Built in 1930 as a sailing cargo carrier, she was active in various trades in Latin America after World War II.
She became a hydrographic survey vessel for the Uruguayan Navy during the 1960s, and in 1978 she became a sailing
ship again, with a modern schooner rig that was developped." (Many Internet pages.)
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Hongkong - China, a souvenir sheet with 18 stamps "Special Attractions of the 18 Districts of Hongkong".
Here are only the four central stamps with maritime topics depicted.
Right top the "Sai Kung District" with some very small boats under the gate.
Righjt below the "Kwai Tsing District" with a container ship and a container bridge.
Left below the "Kowloon City District" with a white cruise liner in the background.
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Belarus, a small souvenir sheet about the Augustouski Canal.
There are some canoes on the way.
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Tanzania, a souvenir sheet with six stamps and a souvenir sheet with two stamps "Beauty of Zanzibar".
Right we see two stamps with local crafts.
On the other sheet with two stamps there is the lighthouse of Zanzibar depicted, stamp above. Sorry, but the stamps
are very blurred.
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Pitcairn Island, a souvenir sheet with four stamps "Early Civilization Part I, Cave Dwellers of Henderson".
Here the one and only stamp with a boat. On the other stamps there are the natives busy in their daily works.
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Bulgaria, a stationery with this stamp; centenary of the port of Varna.
The vessel on the stamp is very blurred.
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Russia, a set with three stamps "Lighthouses 2006".
Left top the lighthouse of the peninsula Kanin, 1938; at the border of the Barents Sea and the White Sea.
In the middle the tower on the island Kildin, 1953. Barents Sea.
Right the lighthouse on the peninsula Rybachiy, 1966; Barents Sea.
Informations about these stamps on following page:
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/russia/2006/ru1368-0.html
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To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high
compressed, so accuracy goes down.
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